ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,902, issued on July 21, was assigned to u-blox AG (Thalwil, Switzerland).
"Authentication methods for a satellite-based navigation system, devices for authenticating messages and authentication system" was invented by Bruce Jackson (Reigate, Great Britain), Davide Lenzarini (Thalwil, Switzerland) and Roderick Bryant (Thalwil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an authentication method for a satellite-based navigation system that in some implementations includes: obtaining, by an authentication server, a plurality of message authentication bundles from a plurality of reference receiver stations,...