ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,024, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Map-aided satellite selection" was invented by Urs Niesen (Berkeley Heights, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for map-aided satellite selection are provided. An example of a method for determining a location according to the disclosure includes determining a future trajectory of a user equipment, estimating an environment model associated with the future trajectory, determining a plurality of expected navigation satellites based on the future trajectory and the environment model, selecting a set of navigation satellites to use in computing the current l...