ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,369, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Integer ambiguity search space reduction" was invented by Jean-Michel Raymond-Marie Rousseau (San Diego) and Ning Luo (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining an integer ambiguity search space includes: obtaining, at an apparatus, a code phase measurement of a satellite vehicle signal comprising a pseudorandom noise code and a carrier signal; obtaining, at the apparatus, spatial information corresponding to a wireless terrestrial signal transferred between the apparatus and a terrestrial base station; determining, at the apparatus, a sa...