ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,506, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Determining time in GNSS denied environment" was invented by Mukesh Kumar (Bangalore, India), Chandrasekhar Jayaram (Bangalore, India), Srinivas Gangji (Bangalore, India) and Santoshkumar Zalake (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for determining a time are provided. An example method may include receiving, in a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environment, a plurality of sidelink messages from a plurality of sources. The example method may further include selecting a time source from the ...