US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on May 19 for "Group address frames replay protection in multi-link and other improvements to multi-link system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,699, issued on May 19, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Group address frames replay protection in multi-link and other improvements to multi-link system" was invented by Li-Hsiang Sun (San Jose, Calif.), Liangxiao Xin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Qing Xia (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhanced wireless protocols are described for stations (STAs) which are associated with Multiple-Link Devices (MLD). One embodiment describes overcoming replay attacks (with or without a modified Sequence Number (SN) even when protected by a Group Temporal Key (GTK) or similar. Other em...