US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 15 for "Enhanced navigation mode with location detection and map layer switching" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,735, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced navigation mode with location detection and map layer switching" was invented by Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Kevin Dao (San Diego), Arnold Jason Gum (San Diego), Bala Ramasamy (San Marcos, Calif.), Kuirong Wang (San Diego) and Damir Didjusto (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enhance the navigation function of navigation/map applications or systems when GNSS signals are weak or sporadic. In one aspect, a UE monitors a position of the UE based on GNSS communication, where the position of the UE is monitored using at least one ...