US Patent Issued to NextNav on July 1 for "Device based barometric pressure sensor calibration" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,546, issued on July 1, was assigned to NextNav LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Device based barometric pressure sensor calibration" was invented by Michael Dormody (San Jose, Calif.), Arun Raghupathy (Bangalore, India), Badrinath Nagarajan (Cupertino, Calif.), Frank Yenshaw (San Mateo, Calif.) and Deepak Joseph (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device-based barometric pressure sensor calibration involves determining a specific location of the mobile device; determining a general location of the mobile device that encompasses and obfuscates the specific location; transmitting the general location to a server; receiving general cali...