US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 30 for "Acquiring cipher keys for positioning system information blocks" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,986, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Acquiring cipher keys for positioning system information blocks" was invented by Kuo-Chun Lee (San Diego), Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam (San Diego), Shanshan Wang (San Diego), Liangchi Hsu (San Diego), Abhishek Bhatnagar (San Diego), Prashanth Mysore (San Diego), Priya Rajan (Hillsborough, N.J.), Karthik Venkatram (San Diego), Daniel Amerga (San Diego), Osama Lotfallah (San Diego) and Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for receiving encrypted positioning assistance data, requesting and obtaining cipher...