ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,190, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Synthetic carrier phase observable generating methods and systems for use in forming time-differenced navigation satellite system observables" was invented by Nicholas Charles Talbot (Victoria, Australia) and Xiaoming Chen (Hohenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention pertain to methods carried out by a navigation satellite system (NSS) receiver for estimating parameters useful to determine a position. The receiver observes signals from satellites. Delta carrier phase observables are computed by subtractin...