US Patent Issued to NextNav on Sept. 2 for "Systems and methods for pressure-based estimation of a mobile device altitude or calibration of a pressure sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,110, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NextNav LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for pressure-based estimation of a mobile device altitude or calibration of a pressure sensor" was invented by Michael Dormody (San Jose, Calif.), Badrinath Nagarajan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Guiyuan Han (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pressure-based estimation of a mobile device altitude or calibration of a pressure sensor involves machines that determine if a reference-level pressure value based on one or more measurements of pressure from a network of weather stations should or should not be used to calibrate a pressure ...