US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 8 for "Security enhancements for ultra-wideband positioning using many-to-many transmissions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,804, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Security enhancements for ultra-wideband positioning using many-to-many transmissions" was invented by Varun Amar Reddy (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enhance the security of UWB ranging, thereby improving the accuracy and reliability of the UWB ranging. In one aspect, a first wireless device embeds first information for generating a secure sequence of a ranging message in a payload section of the ranging message. The first wireless device genera...