ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,383, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to OPENTV INC. (San Francisco).
"Techniques for securing live positioning signals" was invented by Scott Jantz (Gainesville, Fla.) and Nir Livay (Gainesville, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pay television satellite broadcast includes validation data that can be used to validate authenticity of live global positioning system (GPS) data. The validation data may be included within entitlement messages and encrypted for security and selective reception by authorized receivers. A navigation system may compute checksums of received live GPS data and compare with the validation data for a match. A...