US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Spoofing protection for mobile device positioning" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,098, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Spoofing protection for mobile device positioning" was invented by Daniel Fraunholz (Munich), Daejung Yoon (Nozay, France) and Diomidis Michalopoulos (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure inter alia relates to a network entity comprising means for: obtaining or determining a position estimate of a mobile device for verification; transmitting or causing transmitting a positioning reference signal to a position indicated by the position estimate for verification; and trying to verify the position estimate for verification at least b...