US Patent Issued to Secure Communication Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Efficient and secure communication using wireless service identifiers" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,642, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Secure Communication Technologies LLC (Longview, Texas).

"Efficient and secure communication using wireless service identifiers" was invented by James A Proctor Jr. (Indialantic, Fla.) and James Arthur Proctor III (Indialantic, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for reducing communications between servers and a mobile device and providing enhanced security and privacy to wireless beacon services. This can involve a broadcast device transmitting a beacon transmission using a short range wireless radio, such a Bluetooth or WiFi, and including a MAC address, a fir...