ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,482, issued on March 17, was assigned to Swift Navigation Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for determining GNSS positioning corrections" was invented by Benjamin Lipeles Segal (San Francisco), Mark Fine (San Francisco), Joseph Angelo (San Francisco), Leith Bade (San Francisco) and Fergus MacPherson Noble (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system or method for generating GNSS corrections can include receiving satellite observations associated with a set of satellites at a reference station, determining atmospheric corrections valid within a geographical area; wherein geographical areas associated with different a...