US Patent Issued to Magellan Systems Japan on March 25 for "Method and system for providing authentication to GNSS open service signals and interoperable secure positioning" (Japanese, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,480, issued on March 25, was assigned to Magellan Systems Japan Inc. (Amagasaki, Japan).

"Method and system for providing authentication to GNSS open service signals and interoperable secure positioning" was invented by Sergey Lyusin (Moscow) and Nobuhiro Kishimoto (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication mechanism is provided to open service signals in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), by inverting a plurality of bits in a pseudorandom noise code in a GNSS signal having a predetermined period of a binary bit sequence of N bits. A position of each inverted bit in the binary bit sequence is specified by a...