US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on July 1 for "Methods and apparatus for an ambient internet of things (IoT) temporary identifier at a reader" (Canadian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,766, issued on July 1, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for an ambient internet of things (IoT) temporary identifier at a reader" was invented by Guanzhou Wang (Brossard, Canada), Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada), Michael Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.), Alec Brusilovsky (Downingtown, Pa.), Mohamad Kenan Al-Hares (Canterbury, Great Britain) and Anuj Sethi (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reader device may receive a request including a permanent device identifier (PDI) for an ambient-power-enabled internet of things (AIoT) device. The reader device may generate an encrypted tem...