ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,846, issued on March 24, was assigned to RUCKUS IP HOLDINGS LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Device, method and computer readable medium for resisting downgrade attacks" was invented by Rui Chen (Shenzhen, China), Lijie Niu (Shenzhen, China), Linzhou Cai (Shenzhen, China) and Li Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method and computer readable medium for resisting downgrade attacks. User equipment includes a memory having instructions stored thereon and a processor configured to execute the instructions stored on the memory to cause the user equipment to perform the following operations: determining a security authe...