US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on April 14 for "Preserving privacy during secure transactions with ambient power devices" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,184, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Preserving privacy during secure transactions with ambient power devices" was invented by Hui Luo (Marlboro, N.J.) and Rakesh Taori (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining, by an ambient power (AMP) device that harvests environmental energy, one or more first authentication and key management (AKM) parameters. The method includes broadcasting, to powered wireless devices, an initialization request frame including one or more frame-exchange parameters, the one or more first AKM parameters, and encrypted cont...