ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,997, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System and method for application of doppler null scanning (DNS) to position navigation timing (PNT)" was invented by James A. Stevens (Lucas, Texas), Matthew D. Bousselot (Marion, Iowa), Douglas P. Burch (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Tj T. Kwon (Marion, Iowa), William B. Sorsby (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Eric J. Loren (North Liberty, Iowa) and Joseph T. Graf (Center Point, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a receiver node. The receiver node may include a communications interface and a controller. The receiver node is time synchronized with a...