US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 27 for "Variable authentication identifier (AID) for access point (AP) privacy" (American, Finnish, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,329, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Variable authentication identifier (AID) for access point (AP) privacy" was invented by Philip Michael Hawkes (Valley Heights, Australia), Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego), Jouni Kalevi Malinen (Tuusula, Finland), Soo Bum Lee (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego) and Anand Palanigounder (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for using a variable authentication identifier (AID) for access point (AP) privacy. For example, instead of a persistent SSID, an AID is used by a station (STA) to authenticate the AP before...