ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,298, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Carrier signal positioning" was invented by Min Wang (Tustin, Calif.), Chandrasekhar Jayaram (Bangalore, India) and Satya Swaroop Yadati (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integer ambiguity resolution method includes: receiving SPS signals; determining, for the SPS signals, candidate float ambiguity values indicative of float numbers of carrier signal wavelengths of the SPS signals between respective satellite sources, of the SPS signals, and the mobile device; and performing, in response to failure of an integer ambiguity resolution validation check b...