US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent & Licensing on March 24 for "Signal spoof detection at base stations" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,857, issued on March 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Signal spoof detection at base stations" was invented by Sumanth S. Mallya (Flower Mound, Texas) and Jerry Gamble Jr. (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for detecting spoofing attacks are provided. Location information of a base station may be evaluated to determine a true position of the base station. Satellite signals received by the base station may be processed and evaluated to calculate a real time position of the base station. A distance between the real time posi...