ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,307, issued on April 7, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Early commit late detect attack prevention" was invented by Tomas Motos (Hamar, Norway), Hunor Melegh (Heggedal, Norway) and Eivind Syvertsen (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes identifying, by a first device, a level of degradation. The method also includes transmitting, by the first device during a communication phase, a first signal with a first signal quality based on the level of degradation. The method further includes transmitting, by the first device during a second communication phase, a second signal with a...