US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Secure ranging secret key compliance for short-range communication devices" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,981, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Secure ranging secret key compliance for short-range communication devices" was invented by Ajinder Pal Singh (Allen, Texas), Franz-Josef Brucklmayr (Kaufering, Germany) and Stephen Hanna (Clermont, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A responder device, including: a wireless module operable for short-range communication; and processor circuitry coupled to the wireless module and operable to: generate a first query for an initiator device in a ranging area of the responder device to initiate a verification of whether an active secure-ranging secre...