US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 25 for "Secure timing for sidelink systems" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,887, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Secure timing for sidelink systems" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a transmitter user equipment (UE). The transmitter UE generates a message authentication code, based on information within a sidelink master information block (SL-MIB) and a key shared between the transmitter UE and a receiver UE. ...