ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,080, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Septentrio N.V. (Heverlee, Belgium).

"Method and system for determining a phase of a GNSS carrier" was invented by Jean-Marie Sleewaegen (Jette, Belgium) and Wim De Wilde (Oud-Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application pertains to a method for determining a phase of a target data carrier in a GNSS system, the method comprising: in an initialization phase: determining, at a first point in time, a bias term of a synthetic carrier phase function constructed to mimic a phase of the target data carrier; and in an operational phase: using said bias term determined in said initia...