ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,516, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Error correction system for a misbehavior detection system" was invented by Jean-Philippe Monteuuis (Northborough, Mass.), Cong Chen (San Diego), Jonathan Petit (Wenham, Mass.) and Mohammad Raashid Ansari (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first UE may receive a V2X message from a second UE. The V2X message may be a suspicious message. The V2X message may include a plurality of values. Each value in the plurality of values may correspond to a respective field in a plurality of fields. The first UE may identify a health score associated with the V2X messag...