US Patent Issued to UTI on Sept. 29 for "Snapshot GNSS receiver and method using super-long coherent integration and fractional fourier transform" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,217, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to UTI LP (Calgary, Canada).

"Snapshot GNSS receiver and method using super-long coherent integration and fractional fourier transform" was invented by Naser El-Sheimy (Calgary, Canada) and Yiran Luo (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Snapshot receiver that comprises a correlator module for correlating incoming GNSS signals and a transform module that transforms resulting correlated outputs using a Fractional Fourier Transform (FrFT) process, to thereby compensate for weak and dynamic signals. The output of the transform module is an estimated Doppler rate with high accuracy. The es...