US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 5 for "Channel for eavesdropping-mitigation and secret key generation" (Greek, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,661, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel for eavesdropping-mitigation and secret key generation" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Athens, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for securing communications in a wireless communications system. A base station may determine a value that one or more user equipments (UEs) are to use for deriving a secret key for use in securing communications. A UE may use a security key generation procedure to determine the value and de...