ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,555, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced secrecy for orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) waveforms at the physical layer" was invented by Morteza Soltani (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Raviteja Patchava (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device, such as a network entity, may transmit an indication (e.g., via control signaling) to a receiving device, such as a user equipment (UE), indicating that a secure downlink message is scheduled for transmission to the UE. The UE ma...