US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Oct. 7 for "Method for locating a navigation unit" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,295, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Method for locating a navigation unit" was invented by Christophe Villien (Grenoble, France) and Christophe Combettes (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes establishing, for a given time, measurement biases allowing an error affecting raw measurements of pseudoranges separating a navigation unit from at least three beacons to be decreased, and estimating an external position of the navigation unit at the given time based on: beacon positions, corrected pseudorange measurements computed for the gi...