ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,426, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Method for detecting spoofing in a GNSS (global navigation satellite system) receiver, corresponding receiver apparatus method and computer program product" was invented by Domenico Di Grazia (Cesa, Italy) and Fabio Pisoni (Busto Garolfo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite tracking channel has a frequency loop tracking a carrier frequency of a satellite signal. A first indication of a spoofed signals is generated based on a determined satellite signal noise floor value associated with the satellite tracking channel and a tracking...