ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,640, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System and method for GNSS spoofer detection with high integrity error bounding using multiple coasting solutions" was invented by Huan T. Phan (Marion, Iowa), Angelo J. Joseph (Melbourne, Fla.) and Bernard A. Schnaufer (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detection of GNSS signal spoofing with high integrity error bounding determines a parity space formulation for coordinates of a GNSS-driven master position solution (e.g., fully absolute/GNSS or blended GNSS/IRS solution) and a corresponding coasted position solution...