US Patent Issued to All.Space Networks on May 20 for "Non-cooperative position, navigation, and timing extraction from VSAT communications signals using multi-beam phased array antenna" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,314, issued on May 20, was assigned to All.Space Networks Ltd. (Reading, Great Britain).

"Non-cooperative position, navigation, and timing extraction from VSAT communications signals using multi-beam phased array antenna" was invented by Jeremiah P. Turpin (Linthicum, Md.), Brian Billman (Baltimore) and John Finney (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground antenna determines the current time and its own position from received signals that were transmitted by artificial earth satellites for communication. A high-gain multi-beam electrically-steered antenna is combined with a processing system to measure the angles between two or...