US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 19 for "Techniques for enabling secure communications or energy transfer operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,685, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for enabling secure communications or energy transfer operations" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a request to a device (e.g., another UE, base station) in wireless communication with the UE, where the request may be for the device to transmit a signal to the UE as part of an energy transfer procedure, a security key generation procedure, or both. The UE may receive, ...