US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on Oct. 14 for "Method for providing a navigation information, corresponding system and program product" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,637, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Method for providing a navigation information, corresponding system and program product" was invented by Nicola Matteo Palella (Rivolta d'adda, Italy) and Leonardo Colombo (Lecco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing navigation information by a navigation sensing device including an absolute positioning source providing three-dimensional absolute position data including an absolute altitude value, an Inertial Measurement Unit providing inertial data, in particular accelerations and angular rates, and a barometer sensor p...