ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,352, issued on March 25, was assigned to HEXAGON GEOSYSTEMS SERVICES AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland) and LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"GNSS antenna system for receiving multi-band GNSS signals" was invented by Fabio Diem (Zurich, Switzerland), Garance Bruneau (Zurich, Switzerland), Pascal Gohl (Winterthur, Switzerland), Tuomo Haarakangas (Oulu, Finland) and Ilkka Heikura (Oulunsalo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GNSS antenna system for receiving GNSS signals in the L1 and L2/L5 frequency band, and to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising the GNSS antenna system."

The patent was filed on Sept. 2, 2022, ...