ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,881, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Misbehavior detection service for sharing connected and sensed objects" was invented by Jean-Philippe Monteuuis (Northborough, Mass.), Jonathan Petit (Wenham, Mass.), Soumya Das (San Diego), Mohammad Nekoui (San Diego), Mohammad Raashid Ansari (Lowell, Mass.), Abha Khosla (San Diego) and Cong Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for wireless communications. For example, an example of a process includes determining, at the first network device, an estimated location of a second netw...