ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,242, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel scrambling techniques in wireless communications" was invented by Yavuz Yapici (Florham Park, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for security enhancement of physical layer communications through scrambling of transmissions using a hybrid seed to generate a scrambling sequence. The hybrid seed may be determined as a function of a measured channel characteristic of a channel between a user equipment (UE) and network entity, and channe...