ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,976, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Position report authentication" was invented by Ning Luo (Cupertino, Calif.), Yuxiang Peng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gengsheng Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Min Wang (Tustin, Calif.) and Furqan Ahmed (Eastvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of position information authentication for a location application performed by a UE, the method comprising determining by a position engine, a position estimate of the UE and determining by the position engine, a position report message indicating the position estimate. The method also comprises determining by a ...