ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,177, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to u-blox AG (Thalwil, Switzerland).

"Method for determining a confidence value for an estimated parameter in a wireless positioning system and radio receiver device" was invented by Matthias Mahlig (Berlin), Mohamad Abou Nasa (Malmo, Sweden), Peter Karlsson (Malmo, Sweden), Stelios Papaharalabos (Maroussi, Greece) and Yannis Arapakis (Maroussi, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for determining a confidence value for an estimated parameter in a wireless positioning system includes receiving a signal comprising a number of signal samples, pre-processing each sample of the numb...