US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Obfuscation in privacy beacon" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,486, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Obfuscation in privacy beacon" was invented by Jarkko L. Kneckt (Los Gatos, Calif.), Debashis Dash (San Jose, Calif.), Elliot S. Briggs (Carmel, Calif.), Nisan Reuven (Rehovot, Israel), Qi Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sidharth R. Thakur (San Jose, Calif.), Su Khiong Yong (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yong Liu (Campbell, Calif.) and Tianyu Wu (Monterey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for obfuscation in a privacy beacon. An example method includes a first communication device creating a beacon field to be included in a beacon frame. The first c...