US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "MAC address cloning attack detection for V2X devices" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,489, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"MAC address cloning attack detection for V2X devices" was invented by Soumya Das (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Mohammad Nekoui (San Diego) and Jonathan Petit (Wenham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wireless communication at a first V2X device is described herein. The method includes obtaining a message including a MAC header, an L1 source ID, and an L1 destination ID. The method includes decoding the MAC header to produce an L2 source ID associated with the message based on at least one of (1) the L1 destination ID of the message matching a ...