ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,879, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"L1 security signaling" was invented by Igor Gutman (Hod HaSharon, Israel), Yavuz Yapici (Florham Park, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE may detect, at the UE, a suspected fabricated transmission attack based on PHY security. The UE may transmit, to a network node, and the network node may receive, from the UE, an indication of the suspected fabricated transmission attack. The network node may receive, from the UE, an indication of one or more characteristics associated with a potential attacker associate...