Patents by Inventor Clemens Buergi

Clemens Buergi 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: 11579311
    Abstract: Methods, devices, systems, media, and receivers for processing GNSS signals are described. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a method for processing satellite signals of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), the method comprising: receiving a first GNSS signal transmitted in a first GNSS operational band by a satellite of the GNSS and a second GNSS signal transmitted in a second GNSS operational band by the satellite; tracking the first GNSS signal; generating, from the tracking of the first GNSS signal, tracking parameters for the first GNSS signal; and decoding, at least based on the tracking parameters for the first GNSS signal, the second GNSS signal, wherein the first GNSS operational band is one of L1 band, L2 band or L5 band, and the second GNSS operational band is L6 band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: u-blox AG
    Inventors: Zhenlan Cheng, Aku Levola, Clemens Buergi, Paula Syrjarinne
  • Publication number: 20220179098
    Abstract: Methods, devices, systems, media, and receivers for processing GNSS signals are described. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a method for processing satellite signals of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), the method comprising: receiving a first GNSS signal transmitted in a first GNSS operational band by a satellite of the GNSS and a second GNSS signal transmitted in a second GNSS operational band by the satellite; tracking the first GNSS signal; generating, from the tracking of the first GNSS signal, tracking parameters for the first GNSS signal; and decoding, at least based on the tracking parameters for the first GNSS signal, the second GNSS signal, wherein the first GNSS operational band is one of L1 band, L2 band or L5 band, and the second GNSS operational band is L6 band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: u-blox AG
    Inventors: Zhenlan CHENG, Aku LEVOLA, Clemens BUERGI, Paula SYRJARINNE
  • Patent number: 11265093
    Abstract: A method for compensating group delay variations in a CDMA spread spectrum receiver, comprising: receiving an RF signal; generating an ideal replica signal; filtering the RF signal by one or more filters; obtaining an ideal auto-correlation function (ACF) of the ideal replica signal; distorting the ideal ACF to generate a distorted ACF by a filtering model of the one or more filters; aligning the ideal ACF and the distorted ACF; calculating a set of correction factors based on a ratio of the ideal ACF and the distorted ACF; calculating a cross-correlation signal based on the filtered RF signal and the ideal replica signal; and obtaining a compensated correlation signal by applying the set of correction factors to the cross-correlation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: u-blox AG
    Inventor: Clemens Buergi
  • Publication number: 20210409131
    Abstract: A method for compensating group delay variations in a CDMA spread spectrum receiver, comprising: receiving an RF signal; generating an ideal replica signal; filtering the RF signal by one or more filters; obtaining an ideal auto-correlation function (ACF) of the ideal replica signal; distorting the ideal ACF to generate a distorted ACF by a filtering model of the one or more filters; aligning the ideal ACF and the distorted ACF; calculating a set of correction factors based on a ratio of the ideal ACF and the distorted ACF; calculating a cross-correlation signal based on the filtered RF signal and the ideal replica signal; and obtaining a compensated correlation signal by applying the set of correction factors to the cross-correlation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Clemens Buergi
  • Patent number: 8295324
    Abstract: Complex digital data values derived from a DSSS signal, in particular, a GNSS signal, are delivered to a general purpose microprocessor at a rate of 8 MHz and chip sums over eight consecutive data values spaced by a sampling length (TS), each beginning with one of the data values as an initial value, formed and stored. For code removal, each of a series of chip sums covering a correlation interval of 1 ms and each essentially coinciding with a chip interval of fixed chip length (TC), where a value of a basic function (bm) reflecting a PRN basic sequence of a satellite assumes a correlation value (Bm), is multiplied by the latter and the products added up over a partial correlation interval to form a partial correlation sum. The partial correlation interval is chosen in such a way that it essentially coincides with a corresponding Doppler interval having a Doppler length (TD) where a frequency function used for tentative Doppler shift compensation and represented by a step function (sine, cosine) is constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: u-blox AG
    Inventors: Clemens Bürgi, Marcel Baracchi, Grégoire Waelchli
  • Publication number: 20100189163
    Abstract: Complex digital data values derived from a DSSS signal, in particular, a GNSS signal, are delivered to a general purpose microprocessor at a rate of 8 MHz and chip sums over eight consecutive data values spaced by a sampling length (TS), each beginning with one of the data values as an initial value, formed and stored. For code removal, each of a series of chip sums covering a correlation interval of 1 ms and each essentially coinciding with a chip interval of fixed chip length (TC), where a value of a basic function (bm) reflecting a PRN basic sequence of a satellite assumes a correlation value (Bm), is multiplied by the latter and the products added up over a partial correlation interval to form a partial correlation sum. The partial correlation interval is chosen in such a way that it essentially coincides with a corresponding Doppler interval having a Doppler length (TD) where a frequency function used for tentative Doppler shift compensation and represented by a step function (sine, cosine) is constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: u-Blox AG
    Inventors: Clemens Bürgi, Marcel Baracchi, Grégoire Waelchli