US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 18 for "Enhanced messaging to handle SPS spoofing" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,548, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced messaging to handle SPS spoofing" was invented by Mohammed Ataur Rahman Shuman (San Diego), Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.) and Jonathan Petit (Wenham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed herein for transmission of location information by a user equipment (UE) to other UEs. A UE receives Satellite Positioning System (SPS) signals and determines whether the SPS signals are reliable. The UE determines a location estimate to be transmitted to other UEs using the SPS signals if the SPS signals are determined to be reliable and using n...