ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,048, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Post-processing of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data" was invented by Yanling Min (Shanghai), Xiao Cao (Shanghai) and Brian Schipper (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A post-processed GNSS solution from raw GNSS data acquired from a vehicle and optionally other sources is dynamically calculated at the epoch level without using a Kalman filter. Instead, a plurality of GNSS processing methods is applied to each epoch in either the forward or backward direction and the most accurate solution for each epoch of the forwar...