ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,641, issued on July 21, was assigned to Flex Force Enterprises LLC (Portland, Ore.).

"Operational disruption of vehicle containing GNSS receiver based on jamming sequence, environmental measurements, and geographical position information" was invented by Cynthia Louise Archer (Sherwood, Ore.) and Jacob Ryan Sullivan (Hood River, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Several examples of a navigation disruption device and methods of using the same are described herein that use real-time, low-cost computation to generate conflicting/competing signals to actual Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals. For example, the novel, hand...