ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,666, issued on July 22, was assigned to Swift Navigation Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for reduced-outlier satellite positioning" was invented by Paul Grgich (San Francisco) and Matt Peddie (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reduced-outlier satellite positioning includes receiving a set of satellite positioning observations at a receiver; generating a first receiver position estimate; generating a set of posterior observation residual values from the set of satellite positioning observations and the first receiver position estimate; based on the set of posterior observation residual values, identi...