ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,409, issued on May 13, was assigned to Spirent Communications PLC (Crawley, Great Britain).
"GNSS forecast and background obscuration prediction" 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 representing distant objects for analysis of satellite line-of-sight visibility from a grid of points by constructing a first 3D model of foreground objects that obscure line-of-sight visibility of satellites from a grid ...