ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,983, issued on May 5, was assigned to oneNav Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for excess path length corrections for GNSS receivers" was invented by Lionel Garin (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for estimating and using excess path length (EPL) corrections in GNSS receivers are described. A method can estimate the EPLs using a selection of line of sight and non line of sight pseudorange measurements, and these EPLs can be used to correct non selected non-line of sight pseudoranges. In one embodiment, a cloud based system can receive data from a crowd source set of EPL corrections (e.g....