ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,854, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink message protection for ambient wireless devices" was invented by Soo Bum Lee (San Diego) and Sebastian Speicher (Wallisellen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications, including downlink message protection for ambient wireless devices, are described. An ambient wireless device (e.g., tag) receives a downlink message including a first configuration for the ambient wireless device associated with one or more services. The ambient wireless device enables the one or more services at the ambient wirele...