ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,451, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France) and INSTITUT MINES TELECOM (Palaiseau, France).

"Method for determining the position of a decoy using at least one receiver" was invented by Dominique Heurguier (Gennevilliers, France), Nel Samama (Evry, France) and Alexandre Vervisch-Picois (Palaiseau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the position of a decoy using at least one receiver, the method includes a step for detecting a decoy attack, a step for correcting the clock bias delivered by the receiver based on an estimated drift (Dj) of the clock of the receiver. The method comprises a...