ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,611, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Signaling for ephemeris information" was invented by Pavan Nuggehalli (San Carlos, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Alexander Sirotkin (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata (San Diego), Ralf Rossbach (Munich), Sarma V. Vangala (Campbell, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Beijing) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for ephemeris signaling ...