ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,906, issued on June 3, was assigned to STAR ALLY INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Tortola, British Virgin Islands).

"Method and system for signal detection including positioning signals" was invented by Wensheng Hua (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assisted satellite positioning system based on detecting signals from a number of satellites includes: (a) a mobile receiver; and (b) a base station communicating with the receiver over a low-power wireless communication network, the base station providing ephemeris data of a selected number of the satellites, but not all, using a compressed data format. The ephemeris data may include ...