US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Nov. 3 for "Wireless network verification using fingerprints" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,708, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Wireless network verification using fingerprints" was invented by Mark McDiarmid (Seattle) and Andrew Lee Watts (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices can be utilized to verify wireless local area networks (WLANs) using fingerprints. An example method includes identifying a received fingerprint comprised in an advertisement message that is received by a user equipment (UE) at a time and within a coverage area. A source of the advertisement message is determined to be a rogue WLAN by determining that the received fingerprint is d...