ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,214, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Multi-staged pipelined GNSS receiver" was invented by Andrey Bacherov (Moscow) and Charles Manning (Christchurch, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sets of digital samples associated with received wireless signals are received, each of the sets of digital samples corresponding to a particular RF path. The sets of digital samples are provided to a plurality of pipelines, each of the plurality of pipelines including a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including one or more digital logic circuits. Sets of interconnect data are generated...