US Patent Issued to Trimble on June 24 for "Ionospheric disturbance information generation methods and systems" (Canadian, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,373, issued on June 24, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Ionospheric disturbance information generation methods and systems" was invented by Kenneth Donald Doucet (New Brunswick, Canada), Xiaoming Chen (Hohenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Germany) and Gang Lu (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention pertain to generating (s10) and providing (s20) ionospheric disturbance information from navigation satellite system (NSS) reference stations or reference station system to NSS receivers or NSS receiver systems. Station-specific and/or satellite-specific ionospheric disturbance inform...