On February 4, 2020, the USPTO officially granted Patent Number 10,554,412 for “Method and network to implement decentralized validation and authentication mechanisms to prevent ADS-B cyber-attacks.” As described by the official summary, the patent describes a “method or network that addresses cybersecurity vulnerabilities in an ADS-B network by validating and authenticating ADS-B messages. Nodes of the network maintain a validated ledger of ADS-B transactions and use validated information from this ledger to improve security against common cybersecurity attacks including, but not limited to, denial of service attacks, jamming attacks, spoofing attacks, flooding attacks and eavesdropping.”
Patent Number 10,554,412 is the first patent granted to Robust Analytics. Two other patent applications are under evaluation at the USPTO.