US Patent Issued to NextNav France on March 25 for "Time difference of arrival multilateration method for mobile positioning" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,486, issued on March 25, was assigned to NextNav France (Puteaux, France).

"Time difference of arrival multilateration method for mobile positioning" was invented by Rabih Chrabieh (Paris), Mazen Neifer (Courcouronnes, France), Ines Ben Hamida (Courcouronnes, France) and Ganda Ouedraogo (Montevrain, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for location determination in a wireless communications system solves a minimization problem using estimated time-of-arrivals (TOAs) of reference signals [108, 110, 112] received by a receiving node [100] from transmitting nodes [102, 104, 106] and predetermined locations of the transmitting...