ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,451, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning state information securitization in wireless communications" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Athens, Greece) and Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Full encryption and reporting of positioning state information (PSI) of a user equipment (UE) in wireless communications may be unable to be performed to a desired level using current security keys at the UE. As such, a UE may selectively perform partial securitization of PSI. A UE obtains one or more PSI to be reported in one or more PSI reports, identifies a security priority asso...