ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,483, issued on March 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for providing time information in a GNSS receiver" was invented by Stefan Jung (Tuebingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing time information in a GNSS receiver includes receiving at least one time counter variable from a GNSS satellite. The at least one time counter variable describes a number of time intervals that have passed since a time start value, and a data length of the time counter variable limited to a maximum number of countable time intervals. The method also includes reading an offset variable out of a n...