ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,801, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for tracking state of receiver of global navigational satellite system" was invented by Marcus Greiff (Cambridge, Mass.), Karl Berntorp (Cambridge, Mass.) and Stefano Di Cairano (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for tracking a state of a receiver. The system receives a set of measurements collected over a period of time, indicative of a motion of the receiver. The system further processes set of measurements relating to the receiver with a probabilistic smoother to estimate ...