ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,465, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Wi-Fi deauthentication attack detection and prevention" was invented by Santhi Swaroop Golti (Hyderabad, India), Vamsi Krishna Naidu (Hyderabad, India) and Sudhanshu Singh (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for wireless communications. For example, a network device can receive an unprotected management frame indicative of a disconnection of the network device. The unprotected management frame includes an address indicative of an identified wireless access point (AP) associated with the disconnection. The network devic...