US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 21 for "Optimizing weighted least square (WLS) inputs to improve global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) localization" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,753, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Optimizing weighted least square (WLS) inputs to improve global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) localization" was invented by Amir Jalalirad (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Bence Major (Amsterdam), Davide Belli (Diemen, Netherlands), Songwon Jee (San Jose, Calif.), Himanshu Shah (Milpitas, Calif.) and William Morrison (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a position of a device includes obtaining an initial position of the device without using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellites. GNSS measurements are taken of radio fr...