US Patent Issued to Xona Space Systems on Feb. 18 for "Satellite constellation system for facilitating enhanced positioning and nodes for use therewith" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,654, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Xona Space Systems Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Satellite constellation system for facilitating enhanced positioning and nodes for use therewith" was invented by Tyler Gerald Rene Reid (Vancouver, Canada), Kazuma Gunning (Portola Valley, Calif.), Adrien Louis Henry Perkins (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Andrew Michael Neish (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node of a satellite constellation system includes a global positioning receiver configured to receive first signaling from a first plurality of non-LEO navigation satellites of a constellation of non-LEO navigation satellites in no...