ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,597, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Positioning apparatus, computer readable medium, and positioning method" was invented by Norizumi Motooka (Tokyo), Takamasa Kawaguchi (Tokyo), Masayasu Fujita (Tokyo) and Yuki Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning apparatus (100) detects pseudo ranges and carrier phase integrated values from ranging signals (L1C/A) for which augmentation information ([LC/A]) is provided, detects pseudo ranges and carrier phase integrated values from ranging signals (B1C) for which augmentation information is not provided, acquires correction data ([LC/A]) f...