ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,642, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Tewksbury, Mass.).

"Fast GNSS signal acquisition for a maneuverable vehicle in low-SNR environment" was invented by Gennady Y. Poberezhskiy (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Phillip M. Izdebski (Castle Pines, Colo.) and Jason Kyle (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device including a device architecture including a tracking engine (TE). The TE includes a plurality of TE channels, each TE channel including a plurality of correlators. In a first mode of the electronic device, the electronic device is configured to: divide the plurality of TE channels into a first gro...