ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,249, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"GNSS signal multipath detection device, and associated carrier geolocation system and multipath detection method" was invented by David Depraz (Valence, France) and Christian Mehlen (Valence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GNSS signal multipath detection device (16) for a GNSS receiver (12) on-board a carrier further comprising one or a plurality of antennas (14) and comprising: a movement generation module (22) configured for generating a movement of an apparent phase center according to a control law; a control module (23) configured for determining the co...