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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011

Filed:

Aug. 16, 2010
Applicants:

Peter C. Grossnickle, San Diego, CA (US);

Heidi L. Buck, San Diego, CA (US);

Gregory Fleizach, La Jolla, CA (US);

Alan Fronk, Oceanside, CA (US);

Matthew Fong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Barry R. Hunt, San Diego, CA (US);

Matthew Nicholson, San Diego, CA (US);

Brian T. Williams, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Peter C. Grossnickle, San Diego, CA (US);

Heidi L. Buck, San Diego, CA (US);

Gregory Fleizach, La Jolla, CA (US);

Alan Fronk, Oceanside, CA (US);

Matthew Fong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Barry R. Hunt, San Diego, CA (US);

Matthew Nicholson, San Diego, CA (US);

Brian T. Williams, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/40 (2010.01); G01S 19/09 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and process for the geo-location of an asset given no a priori knowledge regarding time and location of the asset with minimized power consumption is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, the system is accurate to about 30 meters CEP (50% circular error probable) using just a short segment, e.g., 100-200 ms, of digitized GPS L1 signal data.


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