ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,726, issued on March 11, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method, computer program and wireless communication device for communication using a pseudo-random value" was invented by Alexander Krebs (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices are provided for wireless communication. A wireless communication device includes a transceiver to communicate with another wireless communication device. The wireless communication device further includes a processor to determine a pseudo-random value using a non-recursive function having at least one non-linear component. The processor further selec...