ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,524, issued on May 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Secured ranging for neighbor awareness networking devices" was invented by Imran Ansari (Hyderabad, India), Rajeev Kumar Singh (Hyderabad, India), Prashant Harkude (Hyderabad, India), Harbeer Singh (Hyderabad, India) and Shaikh Asfaquz Zaman (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first wireless device may establish a communication session with a second wireless device using a neighbor awareness networking (NAN) radio access technology (RAT). The first wireless device may transmit a firs...