Frank van Diggelen has been granted 88 US patents while listed as an inventor at Global Locate . The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in August 2020. Frank van Diggelen ranks #18,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.45%). Patent records list Frank van Diggelen in San Jose, CA, US.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2020 Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2007. peak 9 2002: 6 patents 2002 2003: 6 patents 2004: 6 patents 2004 2005: 3 patents 2006: 3 patents 2006 2007: 9 patents 2008: 2 patents 2008 2009: 7 patents 2010: 5 patents 2010 2011: 8 patents 2012: 7 patents 2012 2013: 5 patents 2014: 5 patents 2014 2015: 7 patents 2016: 3 patents 2016 2017: 3 patents 2018: 1 patents 2018 2019: 1 patents 2020: 1 patents 2020
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Showing 1–25 of 88 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
RE48176
Method and apparatus for generating and distributing satellite tracking information in a compact format
Charles Abraham , James W. LaMance
2020-08-25
10520606
Method and system for determining time in a satellite positioning system
Charles Abraham , Sergei Podshivalov
2019-12-31
9961618
Apparatus and method for performing low-power geo-fence operations
Charles Abraham
2018-05-01
$182,520,000
9658338
Apparatus and method to conserve power in a portable GNSS unit
Stephen Mole
2017-05-23
$65,632,000
9599720
Method and apparatus for locating mobile receivers using a wide area reference network for propagating ephemeris
—
2017-03-21
9562976
Method and apparatus for distinguishing direct GNSS signals from reflections
Stephen Mole
2017-02-07
9482739
Indoor/outdoor transition determination
Stephen Mole , Yan Lu
2016-11-01
9274225
Method and apparatus for generating and distributing satellite tracking information
Charles Abraham , Matthew Riben
2016-03-01
9252826
Method and apparatus for reducing the time required to acquire a GPS signal
Charles Abraham
2016-02-02
9179428
Communications device with direct cellular-to-collocated device communication channel interface
Kamesh Medapalli , Robert G. Lorenz , Charles Abraham , Brima Ibrahim
2015-11-03
$10,722,000
9116233
Power mode control for sensors
Roberto Ernesto Zanutta , Steven Malkos
2015-08-25
$7,403,000
9037154
Method and apparatus for processing position information in a mobile device
Charles Abraham
2015-05-19
8977288
Apparatus and method for performing low-power geo-fence operations
Charles Abraham
2015-03-10
$6,097,000
8963773
Method and apparatus for maintaining integrity of long-term orbits in a remote receiver
Matthew Riben
2015-02-24
8934853
Systems and methods for integrating cellular and location detection functionality using a single crystal oscillator
Robert G. Lorenz , Kamesh Medapalli , Charlie Abraham
2015-01-13
$5,937,000
8930137
Method and apparatus for locating mobile receivers using a wide area reference network for propagating ephemeris
—
2015-01-06
8902104
Method and apparatus for combining measurements and determining clock offsets between different satellite positioning systems
—
2014-12-02
8854259
Method and system for maintaining a GNSS receiver in a hot-start state
Charles Abraham
2014-10-07
$3,070,000
8823587
Method of keeping a GPS receiver in a state that enables rapid signal acquisition
Charlie Abraham
2014-09-02
$3,669,000
8692712
Method and apparatus for processing of satellite signals without time of day information
Charles Abraham
2014-04-08
8643541
Method and apparatus for enhanced autonomous GPS
Sergei Podshivalov , Charles Abraham
2014-02-04
$3,722,000
8581779
Method and apparatus for validating a position in a satellite positioning system using range-rate measurements
—
2013-11-12
8571147
Method and apparatus for reducing the time required to acquire a GPS signal
Charles Abraham
2013-10-29
8514126
Method and apparatus for monitoring the integrity of satellite tracking data used by a remote receiver
David Lundgren , Charles Abraham
2013-08-20
8395543
Method and apparatus for mitigating multipath effects at a satellite signal receiver using a sequential estimation filter
Charles Abraham , Sergei Podshivalov
2013-03-12