US Patent Issued to Trimble on June 24 for "GNSS location determination using a virtual antenna" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,374, issued on June 24, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"GNSS location determination using a virtual antenna" was invented by Adam Clare (Westminster, Colo.), Shawn Weisenburger (Westminster, Colo.), Greg Wallace (San Francisco) and Gleb Zyryanov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver system for determining coordinates of a location can include two GNSS receiver antennas positioned in fixed relation to each other and separated by a short baseline. Signals received from the two receiver antennas can be processed to define a "virtual" antenna located at the midpoint between the two receiver antennas. For i...