ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,246, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Detecting spoofing in a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) using slant range distance" was invented by Wen Fan Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) spoofing is provided. The method includes receiving signals at a GNSS receiver; processing the signals to determine a calculated position; searching a list of distance measuring equipment (DME) transponders around the calculated position to select a set of DME transponders; sorting the set of DME transponders based on a respe...