ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,250, issued on July 15, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Elevation filtering of satellite signals" was invented by Eric Andre Senant (Albany, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position of a vehicle can be determined based at least in part on positions of the satellites relative to the vehicle and elevations of objects proximate the vehicle. Satellite signals may be filtered or weighted using the elevation mask. For example, the techniques may include a computing device receiving map data, sensor data, and/or other input data, and determining a region within which a satellite has line of sight with the vehicle. ...