US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Oct. 14 for "System for local area detection and alerting of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) spoofing" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,932, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System for local area detection and alerting of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) spoofing" was invented by Angelo J. Joseph (Melbourne, Fla.) and Robert J. Frank (Indialantic, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local area detection and alerting system (LDAS) for detecting potential GNSS spoofing within a protected airspace includes a ground-based control station and several RF interference (RFI) control stations spaced to define the protected airspace. Each RFI control station includes two or more reference GNSS signal receivers in commun...