ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,902, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NextNav LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Hybrid position navigation and timing system" was invented by Arun Raghupathy (Bangalore, India), Sameet Deshpande (Calgary, Canada), Payam Dehghani Rahimzadeh (Calgary, Canada) and Ganesh Pattabiraman (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes a mobile device receiving a plurality of first signals from one or more first transmitters in a network. Each first signal has first data including an associated time that is non-synchronized to the time of another first signal of the plurality of first signals. One or more processors synchronizes...