US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 21 for "Out-of-band key for ranging" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,626, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Out-of-band key for ranging" was invented by Mauro Scagnol (Great Cambourne, Great Britain), Mayank Batra (Cambridge, Great Britain), Giridhar Dhati Mandyam (San Diego) and Tarik Isani (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments pertain to wireless communication. A first device may obtain an out-of-band (OOB) key that is shared OOB with respect to a ranging session defined in-band between the first device and a second device. The first device may generate, during the ranging session using the OOB key itself or in combination with information ...