US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 21 for "Relay station attack prevention" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,901, issued on July 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Relay station attack prevention" was invented by Werner Lummer (Landshut, Germany) and Stefan Klaus Beierke (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of antennas, an access control mechanism, and a computing resource. The computing resource is configured to initiate each of multiple antennas to transmit a wireless signal and receive values indicative of signal strength of the wireless signals from the multiple antennas. The computing resource also is configured to calculate a position of a wireless electrical device based on t...