US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Feb. 3 for "Protection against wireless access point impersonation" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,042, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Protection against wireless access point impersonation" was invented by Yaron Koral (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Shraboni Jana (Danville, Calif.) and Kaustubh Joshi (Short Hills, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point impersonation protection system ("the system") can scan for wireless network signals to detect a wireless network provided by a malicious access point. The system can collect a network feature associated with the wireless network. The system can analyze the network feature and can provide analysis results to a machine learning classif...