US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "Key and counter management in wireless systems" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,491, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Key and counter management in wireless systems" was invented by Anand Palanigounder (San Diego) and Adrian Edward Escott (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are wireless communications systems and techniques. For example, a wireless communication device (e.g., a user equipment (UE)) compares a first key identifier (generated from a key stored in a first storage unit, such as a universal subscriber identity module) to a second key identifier (stored in a second storage unit, such as non-volatile memory) to identify a mismatch between the key...