ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,491, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Antenna phase center compensation for orbital assistance data" was invented by Kannan Muthuraman (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Zoltan Biacs (San Mateo, Calif.), Ning Luo (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ronald Blumstein (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed for providing modified orbital assistance data to a mobile station to determine its location using global navigation satellite system (GNSS). In some example embodiments, a method for determining a location of a mobile station using orbital assistance data may include: re...