ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,618, issued on June 30, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method and program" was invented by Seiji Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to measure a relative displacement amount of the signal processing apparatus for each predetermined measurement period, measure a first delay time corresponding to a time period required for the signal processing apparatus to output a positioning solution, and estimate a position of the signal processing apparatus at a time after a current time by the first delay time, based on the po...