US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 30 for "Methods and apparatus for carrier phase continuity in satellite positioning system signals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,604, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus for carrier phase continuity in satellite positioning system signals" was invented by Min Wang (Tustin, Calif.) and Ning Luo (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device supports carrier phase based positioning using positioning signals received from positioning signals from a plurality of satellites in a satellite positioning system (SPS). In the presence of a discontinuous carrier phase, e.g., if a cycle slip is detected, the mobile device is configured to generate a continuous carrier phase using the device history of t...