ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,505, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and techniques for quasi-zenith satellite system (QZSS) signal acquisition" was invented by Pulkit Rajgadiya (Churu, India), Fnu Siddhant (Bangalore, India), Jordan Cookman (San Jose, Calif.) and Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for performing Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) signal acquisition. For example, an example of a method for performing QZSS signal acquisition includes obtaining a modulated message signal using a frequency band generating, based on an estimated set of signal acquisiti...