ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,296, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SYNTONY (Toulouse, France).
"Cloud-offloaded GNSS positioning method" was invented by Guillaume Carrie (Saint-Lys, France), Cyrille Gernot (Ste Foy de Peyrolieres, France) and Sylvain Daubas (Montauban, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-offloaded GNSS (CO-GNSS) positioning method for locating a connected object. The signal received by the object is translated to an intermediate frequency before being sampled. The connected object acquires the satellites and estimates the code phases, which are transmitted to the server and then time-stamped. The server then determines a set of candida...