US Patent Issued to Furuno Electric on March 18 for "GNSS receiving device and GNSS receiving method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,609, issued on March 18, was assigned to Furuno Electric Co. Ltd. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"GNSS receiving device and GNSS receiving method" was invented by Shinya Kowada (Nishinomiya, Japan) and Kunihiko Hashimoto (Neyagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GNSS receiver includes at least two antennas, a satellite direction acquisition module, an estimation module, and a determination module. A satellite direction acquisition module acquires the direction when viewing the satellite corresponding to the GNSS signal received by the antenna based on the satellite orbit information. The estimation module estimates the arrival direct...