US Patent Issued to Google on April 29 for "Accounting for atmospheric and terrestrial obstacles in geographic positioning" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,412, issued on April 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Accounting for atmospheric and terrestrial obstacles in geographic positioning" was invented by Fred P. Pighin (Sausalito, Calif.), Daniel J. Filip (San Jose, Calif.), Scott Ettinger (San Carlos, Calif.), Bryan Klingner (Austin, Texas) and David Martin (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position fix identifying a geographic location of a receiver is received. The position fix was generated using signals received at the receiver from respective high-altitude signal sources (such as satellites). Imagery of a geographic area that includes the geo...