US Patent Issued to MediaTek Singapore on Feb. 18 for "Security of Wi-Fi protected setup procedure" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,898, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Security of Wi-Fi protected setup procedure" was invented by Gabor Bajko (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions pertaining to improvement in the security of a Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) procedure are proposed. An access point (AP) determines that a WPS procedure is activated. In response, the AP varies a transmission (Tx) power in transmitting one or more WPS management frames during the WPS procedure. Moreover, the AP configures one or more credentials to a station (STA) in response to receiving one or more management frames from ...