ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,523, issued on April 22, was assigned to Windward LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Identifying spoofed maritime signals using information from other vessels" was invented by Dror Salzman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Shay Amram (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and product for identifying spoofed maritime signals using information from other vessels. The method comprises obtaining one or more location-reporting signals of a maritime vessel, wherein the one or more location-reporting signals comprise one or more respective sets of geographical coordinates, each of which having a timestamp. The method further comprises...