US Patent Issued to AIRBUS U.S. SPACE & DEFENSE on Oct. 6 for "Providing secure positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) using a networked constellation of satellites" (District Of Columbia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,324, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AIRBUS U.S. SPACE & DEFENSE INC. (Arlington, Va.).

"Providing secure positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) using a networked constellation of satellites" was invented by Clark Emerson Cohen (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for providing a positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) service using a mesh network of interconnected nodes that includes a constellation of satellites. The method includes receiving a pseudorandom noise (PRN) code with time-registration metadata at a broadcast satellite of the constellation of satellites, the PRN code with the time-regist...