US Patent Issued to Topcon Positioning Systems on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for fast searching global navigation satellite system signals" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,250, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Topcon Positioning Systems Inc. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for fast searching global navigation satellite system signals" was invented by Dmitry Anatolyevich Rubtsov (Moscow), Leonid Victorovich Purto (Moscow), Andrey Vladimirovich Veitsel (Moscow) and Victor Andreevich Prasolov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for fast searching GNSS signals performed on a GNSS receiver includes the steps of receiving a signal having a known pseudo random noise code. State information of a code generator is stored when a pseudo random noise code is generated. Sever...