ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,605, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Kinematic positioning with inertial constraints" was invented by Min Wang (Tustin, Calif.), Gengsheng Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ning Luo (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for determining positioning. For example, the systems and techniques can include obtaining an inertial height measurement, wherein the inertial height measurement is obtained based on a determination that one or more positioning signals are unavailable. A height constraint can be generated using the inertial height measurement, wherein the he...