ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,265, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"System, method, and apparatus for detecting call interception" was invented by Patrick G. Traynor (Gainesville, Fla.), Kevin Butler (Gainesville, Fla.), Christian Peeters (Gainesville, Fla.) and Tyler Tucker (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods described herein relate to identifying an audio rogue base station intercept of a call using a modified distance bounding algorithm. Methods may include: establishing a shared resource for a session with a remote end device; selecting a nonce and provide the nonce t...