US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for in motion initialization of global navigation satellite system-inertial navigation system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,753, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for in motion initialization of global navigation satellite system-inertial navigation system" was invented by Vinod Kumar Saini (Bengaluru, India), Abdelmonaem Lakhzouri (San Francisco), Bo Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and William Morrison (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device in a moving vehicle initializes a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-Inertial Navigation System (INS) system while the vehicle is in-motion with the orientation of the mobile device with respect to a global reference frame. The mobile device uses...