ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,521, issued on June 9, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Composite PRN code to achieve higher effective chip rate for lower time-of-arrival error" was invented by Isaac M. Jeng (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating a composite pseudo random noise (PRN) code is provided. The method comprises receiving a wireless transmission having a noisy received original PRN code multiplexed with navigation data. A noiseless local replica original PRN code is generated within the receiver. A noiseless local replica compressed PRN code is then generated based on the noiseless local replica original PRN code. T...