US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for power efficient satellite tracking strategy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,492, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for power efficient satellite tracking strategy" was invented by Harsha Shirahatti (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Chaochao Wang (Placentia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An efficient satellite vehicle (SV) tracking mode that, when utilized by user equipment (UE), consumes less power and/or computing resources of the UE than a default SV tracking mode of tracking all visible SV, while maintaining consistent signal quality and/or positional, navigational, and/or timing information accuracy standards. Furthermore, use of the efficient SV trac...