US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 28 for "Broadcast and/or groupcast security for device-to-device positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,732, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Broadcast and/or groupcast security for device-to-device positioning" was invented by Hongil Kim (San Diego) and Soo Bum Lee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for performing wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may perform operations including generating, at a user equipment (UE), a message including information associated with positioning-reference signaling. The operations may include obtaining: a group identifier, a group key, and a group-key identifier. The operations may include deriving a traf...