US Patent Issued to Spirent Communications on April 1 for "GNSS forecast impacting receiver startup" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,159, issued on April 1, was assigned to Spirent Communications PLC (Crawley, Great Britain).

"GNSS forecast impacting receiver startup" was invented by Jeremy Charles Bennington (Greenwood, Ind.), Richard West (Paignton, Great Britain), Paul Hansen (Cambridge, Great Britain), Esther Anyaegbu (Northampton, Great Britain) and Matthew Pottle (Paignton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is reducing starting time for a GNSS receiver that has an imprecise initial starting location by requesting starting assistance from a CDN that caches predictive data including first data indicated predicted LOS visibility from the re...