ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,567, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and apparatus to reduce communications for position, navigation and timing determinations" was invented by Rongsheng Li (Hacienda Heights, Calif.), Kenneth Cecil Clark (Jupiter, Fla.), Andrey Tolstov (Hohenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Germany), Tung-Ching Tsao (Torrance, Calif.), Cody L. Gruebele (Corona, Calif.) and Chang Jin Yoo (Anaheim, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to reduce communications for position, navigation and timing (PNT) determinations are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus to enable PNT determination for a...