ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,389, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Physical (PHY) layer security" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Athens, Greece) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for securing physical (PHY) layers in wireless communication. Certain aspects are directed to a method for wireless communication by a base station (BS). In some examples, includes, by, a secured first index based at least in part on a first index and a first secret key, the first index corresponding to a first orthogonal cover code (OCC)...