ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,013, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to u-blox AG (Thalwil, Switzerland).

"Method for detecting anomalies in a positioning system and positioning engine for a positioning system" was invented by Dimitris Kalogiros (Thalwil, Switzerland), Hariharasudhan Vigneswaran (Thalwil, Switzerland) and Matthias Mahlig (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting anomalies in a positioning system comprises receiving, for a plurality of locator devices (ANC1, ANC2, ANC3, ANC4), respective location indicators associated with at least one mobile device (TG1, TG2, TG3), determining a position of the at least one mobile ...