US Patent Issued to NextNav on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for extending the spatial coverage of a reference pressure network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,219, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NextNav LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for extending the spatial coverage of a reference pressure network" was invented by Badrinath Nagarajan (Cupertino, Calif.), Guiyuan Han (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Dormody (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Extending the spatial coverage of a reference pressure network. Particular embodiments described herein include machines that initially determine that an estimated position of a mobile device resides outside a coverage area of a network of reference pressure sensors. Reference-level pressures are determined using measu...