Patents by Inventor James Russell Semler

James Russell Semler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5825326
    Abstract: A GPS system and method for real-time determination of integer ambiguities in a global positioning system (GPS) receiver and, more specifically, to a GPS system and method for determining integer ambiguities of a GPS solution using a Kalman filter with double difference integer ambiguities as additional states to estimate the ambiguities until they are estimated to within a sufficiently tight variance around their error estimates. Thereafter, all the candidate integer ambiguity values are searched in the range domain, e.g., along the double difference lines-of-sight for each satellite, until one is selected; if the after-the-fit residuals for the selected integers are below a certain threshold, then the selected integers are accepted as the integer ambiguities. If not, another set of candidate integer values are selected and analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Interstate Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: James Russell Semler, Earl Clare Thorndyke, Jr.