US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 4 for "Common frames for authentication and encryption" (American, Finnish, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,352, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Common frames for authentication and encryption" was invented by Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego), Jouni Kalevi Malinen (Tuusula, Finland) and Philip Michael Hawkes (Valley Heights, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for lightweight, low-latency authentication and association between STAs and APs in wireless local area networks (WLANs). In various aspects, an apparatus may transmit, over a WLAN prior to authentication by an access point (AP), a first Extensible Authentication Protocol Over a Local Area Network (...