US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 24 for "Secure link establishment" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,821, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Secure link establishment" was invented by Hongil Kim (San Diego), Soo Bum Lee (San Diego), Adrian Edward Escott (Reading, Great Britain) and Anand Palanigounder (San Diego).

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 wireless communication device may receive, from a second wireless communication device, a discovery message that includes a service code. The first wireless communication device may verify the service code. The first wireless communication device may trans...