ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,752, issued on May 27, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).
"Mitigating errors in GNSS with upward facing sensor" was invented by Adam Clare (Westminster, Colo.), Shawn Weisenburger (Westminster, Colo.) and Yu Jiao (Westminster, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and apparatus are provided for determining the amount of obstruction of a view of a satellite. An estimated satellite location from a satellite signal is mapped to a matrix of obstructions. A window is determined around the satellite location and all the obstructions within the window are considered in determining whether the satellite ...