ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,905, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to u-blox AG (Thalwil, Switzerland).

"Method for performing a parallel search, receiver, computer program product and non-volatile storage medium" was invented by Aku Levola (Thalwil, Switzerland) and Boming Jin (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for performing a parallel search for a first positioning fix in a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. The method includes, in some instances, determining prepositioning information, wherein the prepositioning information includes a receiver information and a satellite information...