US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 8 for "Wireless channel power profile false base station detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,718, issued on April 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Wireless channel power profile false base station detection" was invented by Ravi Agarwal (San Diego), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.) and Naga Bhushan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wireless access network, a false base station (FBS) may imitate a legitimate base station by repeating the transmissions of the legitimate base station at a higher power level such that one or more user equipment (UEs) synchronize with the FBS instead of the legitimate base station. The present disclosure provides a UE that detects an FBS. The UE may estimate a time...