ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,255, issued on July 15, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for navigation signal clustering" was invented by Jerome Mark Shapiro (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are systems and methods for generating a consistent set of signals to be processed by a PVT processor. In one or more examples, a GNSS receiver can receive a plurality of signals from a plurality of signal sources. In one or more examples, the systems and methods can generate clusters that have been vetted using cost functions so as to maximize the probability that any cluster that is sent to the PVT processor cont...