ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,078, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to oneNav Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Methods and apparatuses for improved acquisition of modern GNSS signals" was invented by Norman Krasner (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Many modern Global navigational satellite systems (GNSS) utilize signaling that includes a primary pseudorandom number (PRN) code and a secondary low rate PRN code, the latter of which is modulo-2 added to the first. In some GNSS acquisition receivers in which precise a priori synchronization information is unavailable, the acquisition process performs a set of correlation operations that begin at a time th...