US Patent Issued to The MITRE, NASA Langley Research Center on May 12 for "Systems and methods for improving GNSS-based navigation" (Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,278, issued on May 12, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.) and NASA Langley Research Center (Hampton, Va.).

"Systems and methods for improving GNSS-based navigation" was invented by Arthur K. Scholz (Lunenburg, Mass.), Emily V. Bates (McLean, Va.), Kenneth William Schmitt (Woburn, Mass.), Evan Tyler Dill (Poquoson, Va.) and Julian Gutierrez (Yorktown, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based navigation may include retrieving terrain data for a geographical region and satellite orbit data for a GNSS comprising a plurality of satellites. Then, for of a plurality of time st...