ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,023, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to POSITIONING UNIVERSAL INC. (San Diego).

"Vehicle locating system with satnav coordinate encoding" was invented by Francisco Alejandro Quintero Ramos (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a location tracking system and device that uses spline coefficients, a timing parameter, and a number n of spatial positions to be interpolated in a location message payload rather than the actual satellite coordinates."

The patent was filed on June 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/331,557.

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