US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 23 for "Preconfigured reference signal resources for secret key extraction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,065, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Preconfigured reference signal resources for secret key extraction" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for preconfigured reference signal resources for secret key extraction are described. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may identify a set of resources reserved for a secret key derivation process including an exchange of reference signals between the UE and a first wireless device using the set of resources. As such, the U...