ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,131, issued on April 29, was assigned to NextNav LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Wide area positioning system" was invented by Arun Raghupathy (Bangalore, India), Ganesh Pattabiraman (Saratoga, Calif.), Subramanian S. Meiyappan (San Jose, Calif.) and Hari Sankar (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for determining position of a receiver. The positioning system comprises a transmitter network including transmitters that broadcast positioning signals. The positioning system comprises a remote receiver that acquires and tracks the positioning signals and/or satellite signals. The satellite signa...