ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,037, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Implementing confidence metrics in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications" was invented by Akash Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Amit Jain (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enhancing vehicle operations safety using coordinating vehicle platooning or enhancing platooning safety against location spoofing attacks. In one example, a source user equipment (UE) detects a potential spoofing event associated with location information being altered in an unauthorized manner, the source UE may transmit a...