US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 6 for "Real-time soft combining, CRC validation, and MIC validation of decrypted packets" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,860, issued on May 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Real-time soft combining, CRC validation, and MIC validation of decrypted packets" was invented by Vishal Agarwal (Bangalore, India), Huibert Denboer (Escondido, Calif.) and Giriraj Goyal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus receives a first PDU and a first CRC that is based on the first PDU. The first PDU is encrypted based on a first nonce. The apparatus decrypts the first PDU to obtain a first payload and a first cipher stream. The apparatus soft combines the decrypted first payload with a decrypted set of payloads. The set of payloads have...