US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 19 for "Protecting timing synchronization function values with security parameters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,698, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Protecting timing synchronization function values with security parameters" was invented by Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego) and Gaurang Naik (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for protecting timing synchronization function (TSF) values with message integrity checks (MICs). Various aspects relate generally to methods for a wireless device to protect the TSF field using an MIC. Some aspects more specifically ...