US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 30 for "Sidelink channel security" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,987, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink channel security" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may secure a communication for a physical sidelink channel using a secret key, such as a group common secret key or a UE-specific secret key. The UE may transmit the secured communication on the physical sidelink channel to a second UE...