ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,229, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION (Columbus, Ohio).

"Next generation GNSS-R receiver" was invented by Christopher Ruf (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ryan P. Miller (Howell, Mich.), Timothy Butler (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Andrew O'Brien (Columbus, Ohio) and Chi-Chih Chen (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a navigation antenna configured to receive first satellite signals transmitted from a first type of satellite in a first frequency band second satellite signals transmitted from a second type of satellite in a second fr...