US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 11 for "Protection of a wireless access point (AP) from repeated attacks" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,266, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Protection of a wireless access point (AP) from repeated attacks" was invented by Sourabh Banerjee (Hyderabad, India), Ravi Paluri (Hyderabad, India), Sandip Homchaudhuri (San Jose, Calif.), James Simon Cho (Stateline, Nev.) and Viswanath Kraleti (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for performing actions to protect a wireless access point (AP) from repeated incorrect security credential input attacks. For example, a combination of techniques are implemented to block a wireless station (STA...