ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,630, issued on June 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Independent sequence processing to facilitate security between nodes in wireless networks" was invented by Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, Texas), Xiaolin Lu (Allen, Texas), Janwei Zhou (Plano, Texas) and Il Han Kim (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network includes a first wireless node that communicates over a wireless network connection. The first wireless node includes a first encryption engine that processes a first initialization data set and a current transmit sequence associated with a current communication to generate a next transmit sequence that...