ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,031, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Communication security based on parameter change" was invented by Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego), Jouni Kalevi Malinen (Tuusula, Finland), Philip Michael Hawkes (Valley Heights, Australia) and George Cherian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to changing at least one communication parameter. In some examples, the at least one communication parameter may include at least one of an association identifier (AID), a packet number (PN), a sequence number (SN), a traffic identifier (TID), a timing synchronization function (TSF) value, or a combination t...