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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:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Nextnav, Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Arun Raghupathy, Bangalore, IN;
Subramanian S. Meiyappan, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas Wolf, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
NextNav, LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/06 (2010.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01); G01S 5/14 (2006.01); G01S 19/10 (2010.01); G01S 19/46 (2010.01); G01C 5/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/06 (2013.01); G01C 5/06 (2013.01); G01S 5/021 (2013.01); G01S 5/14 (2013.01); G01S 5/145 (2013.01); G01S 19/10 (2013.01); G01S 19/46 (2013.01);
Abstract
Positioning systems and methods for estimating an altitude of a receiver. In some embodiments, pressure and temperature information from a network of sensors is received by the receiver, and the pressure and temperature information from the network of sensors is used along with pressure information measured at a position of the receiver to estimate the altitude of the receiver.