ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,389, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Spoofing detection based on ADS-B positions from multi-mode S transponder intruders" was invented by Xiaoqiang Chen (Beijing), Guoqing Wang (Beijing) and Ruy C. Brandao (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determine a GNSS based position malfunction and further estimate an own-ship position when determining that the GNSS position may be inaccurate. The system of this disclosure may use information either from any one or more of internal navigation systems and external information sources to determine whether a GNSS based position for th...