US Patent Issued to Iridium Satellite on Feb. 24 for "Wireless signal validation using an independent wireless data link" (Virginia, New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,396, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Iridium Satellite LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Wireless signal validation using an independent wireless data link" was invented by Gregory Gutt (Herndon, Va.), Tim Flynn (New York), Trevor Landon (Vienna, Va.), David G. Lawrence (Santa Clara, Va.), Michael L. O'Connor (Redwood City, Calif.) and Rachel Schmalzried (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For validation of wireless signals, a wireless receiver receives a validation signal that includes information from a target signal. By using digital signature, message authentication code (MAC), and/or hashing, the validation signal is verified ...