US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 24 for "Methods and systems for securing downlink control information with secret keys" (Greek, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,841, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for securing downlink control information with secret keys" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Athens, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of the present disclosure disclose methods and systems directed to securing downlink control information (DCI) using secret keys available to both a user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS). In some aspects, the base station may secure a DCI using one or more secret keys. The secret keys may be generated by the BS and the UE based on an estimation of a radio...