US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on April 21 for "Wireless fine time measurement authentication" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,231, issued on April 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Wireless fine time measurement authentication" was invented by Matan Ben-Shachar (Ihud, Israel), Oren Shani (Kfar-Saba, Israel) and Yaron Alpert (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Fine Time Measurement (FTM) authentication system and method include performing a FTM transaction comprising at least one FTM-ACK message pair transmitted and received via a first communication channel between two endpoints, where the at least one FTM-ACK message pair contains timestamp values of message departure time and message arrival time during the FTM tran...