US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 16 for "Systems and methods for acquisition and tracking of unknown LEO satellite signals" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,026, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for acquisition and tracking of unknown LEO satellite signals" was invented by Zak Kassas (Columbus, Ohio), Mohammad Neinavaie (Irvine, Calif.) and Joe Khalife (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and device configurations are provided for extracting navigation observables and navigation using low earth orbit (LEO) signals. Methods and systems described herein can detect one or more low earth orbit (LEO) satellite downlink signals, and determine carrier phase observables and Doppler observabl...