US Patent Issued to Xona Space Systems on May 5 for "Transmitting secure navigation signals via applying encryption" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,984, issued on May 5, was assigned to Xona Space Systems Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"Transmitting secure navigation signals via applying encryption" was invented by Andrew Michael Neish (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Robert Martin Grayson (Los Alamitos, Calif.) and Joshua Earl McGhee (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite is operable to generate a navigation message. Encrypted navigation message data is generated from the navigation message by applying an encryption scheme to the navigation message. An encrypted ranging signal is generated by applying the encryption scheme to a spreading code of the satellite. A secure navigat...