US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Sept. 30 for "Methods and apparatus for secure access control in wireless communications" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,559, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for secure access control in wireless communications" was invented by Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada), Alec Brusilovsky (Downingtown, Pa.) and Guanzhou Wang (Brossard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for secure access control in wireless communications are disclosed. In an example, a method includes receiving a broadcast message including system information, identifying a first set of hashed identifiers (IDs) and a first random number based on the system information, and each ID of the first...