US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 1 for "Methods and apparatus for banning devices performing active security attacks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,823, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus for banning devices performing active security attacks" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) detects signals transmitted by one or more attacking devices that interfere with downlink signals from base stations. The UE measures the angle of arrival (AoA) and power information of the interfering signals and sends an interference report to a serving base station. The base station may receive interfe...