US Patent Issued to oneNav on March 17 for "Modernized consumer grade GNSS secondary code acquisition and signal tracking" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,481, issued on March 17, was assigned to oneNav Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Modernized consumer grade GNSS secondary code acquisition and signal tracking" was invented by Paul McBurney (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nagaraj Shivaramaiah (Fremont, Calif.), Norman Krasner (Redwood City, Calif.), Paul A. Conflitti (Ashland, Ore.) and Mark Moeglein (Ashland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Global navigation satellite systems and methods use L5 GNSS signals to acquire secondary code phases of those signals without using L1 GNSS signals to aid in the acquisition of secondary code phases. Various embodiments are described to perform this acquisit...