US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Oct. 27 for "System and method for frame protection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,332, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System and method for frame protection" was invented by Liwen Chu (San Ramon, Calif.), Kiseon Ryu (San Diego), Huizhao Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Hongyuan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a method and apparatus for communications are disclosed. In an embodiment, a communications device includes a controller configured to generate a protected control frame using a key for integrity checking and a transceiver configured to transmit the protected control frame to a second communications device."

The patent was filed on Feb. 13, 2...