US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 16 for "Physical layer secret-key configuration and signaling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,731, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Physical layer secret-key configuration and signaling" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a first control message that includes a mapping of each security key of a set of security keys to respective security key identifiers. The UE may identify that a first security key identifier is associated with one or more channels to be used for...