[May 16, 2013] CSR Technology Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- CSR Technology Holdings, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,763) developed by David Allan Tuck, Costa Mesa, Calif., Mangesh Chansarkar, Irvine, Calif., and Ardalan Heshmati, Saratoga, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for geographically aiding navigation satellite system solution." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is related to position calculation and navigation systems, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for making accuracy improvements to a GPS receiver's navigation solutions. According to a first aspect, selective cartography information from a map database accessed by a GPS receiver from a location-aiding device is integrated into the position calculations performed by the GPS receiver. According to another aspect, selective cartography information includes indices representing associated attributes of geographical objects, such as, a width-indicator index for a road segment." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2010 (12/762,060). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,442,763&OS=8,442,763&RS=8,442,763 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. SR0516HP0516-877562 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]