ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,102, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Differential global navigation satellite system (DGNSS) enhancement" was invented by Naveen Kumar Aravapalli (Hyderabad, India), Arun Kumar Sharma Tandra (Hyderabad, India) and Chandrasekhar Jayaram (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal position is determined with differential Global Navigation Satellite System (DGNSS) using GNSS signals from a plurality of satellite vehicles and differential corrections generated by a reference station for the GNSS signals and broadcast via a DGNSS server. The use of the differential corrections for positioning...