US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 27 for "Using positioning techniques to detect false base stations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,081, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Using positioning techniques to detect false base stations" was invented by Ravi Agarwal (San Diego), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Huilin Xu (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for detecting a potential false base station (FBS). In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) or a location server obtains a first location estimate of the UE based on a cellular network-based positioning procedure involving one or more cells, obtains a second location estimate of the UE based on a non-cellular netw...