US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 25 for "Devices and techniques for improving reception or compensating for attenuation of GNSS signals during water immersion activities" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,479, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Devices and techniques for improving reception or compensating for attenuation of GNSS signals during water immersion activities" was invented by Arnold Jason Gum (San Diego), Zoltan Biacs (San Mateo, Calif.), Rayman Pon (Cupertino, Calif.), David Tuck (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Bo Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jeffrey Wong (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device that can receive a plurality of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) timing signals using an antenna, where the antenna is located in an exterior portion of the wearable...