US Patent Issued to Topcon Positioning Systems on Aug. 26 for "Method of measuring phase ionosphere scintillations" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,281, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Topcon Positioning Systems Inc. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Method of measuring phase ionosphere scintillations" was invented by Mark Isaakovich Zhodzishsky (Moscow), Alexey Vasilievich Bashaev (Moscow), Roman Valerievich Kurynin (Moscow) and Ivan Michailovich Sokolov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of measuring ionosphere scintillation phase index Sigma-Phi, the method including, for each of N satellites being tracked, calculating a phase prediction at an i-th sample; for each of the N satellites, calculating an individual loop discriminator signal based on the phase prediction; reject...