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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
James J Spilker, Jr, Woodside, VA (US);
Assignee:
Stanford Telecommunications, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375130 ; 370316 ;
Abstract
A receiver for tracking and acquisition of the split spectrum PN GPS C/A signal constellation from an earth-orbiting satellite for radiolocation includes an RF front end for receiving and downconverting the split spectrum PN GPS C/A signals from the earth-orbiting satellite to an IF signal. The total power in the split spectrum PN GPS C/A signal is compressed and the compressed split spectrum PN GPS C/A signals are supplied to a utilization device.