ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,003, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NextNav France (Puteaux, France).

"Indoor and outdoor geolocation and time of arrival estimation using wireless signals" was invented by Rabih Chrabieh (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a time of arrival of a signal transmitted over a wireless channel, includes receiving the signal by a receiving device to produce a received signal; filtering by a filter either the received signal or a code sequence, wherein the filter is designed to produce a correlation output that is near causal; correlating the received signal with the code sequence to create the correlation outp...