US Patent Issued to The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army on May 5 for "Precise wide area ionosphere correction solution for multi-spectrum alternative sources of space based PNT signals" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,979, issued on May 5, was assigned to The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Precise wide area ionosphere correction solution for multi-spectrum alternative sources of space based PNT signals" was invented by Paul Manz (Andover, N.J.), Thomas Blenk Jr. (Chatham, N.J.), Ekta Patel (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Kevin Schaal (Lafayette, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Ionosphere Correction Extrapolation (ICE) solution for correcting ionosphere-induced errors in a space-based positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) signal uses a reference receiver to create a local ionosphere model. The ...