ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,662, issued on May 5, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods, devices and systems for repeating secure wireless connections" was invented by Vikas Dineshkumar Shah (Vijayanagar, India), Rakesh Eluvan Periyaeluvan (Bangalore, India) and Deepak Poongundrun (Virudhunagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include, by operation of a first wireless device, executing a hash operation on a first portion of a received authentication value to generate a hash result. In response to determining that a connection is to be refreshed, an authentication validate can be validated by decrypting a second...