US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 9 for "Lower layer security for groupcast communication" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,396, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Lower layer security for groupcast communication" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Karthika Paladugu (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may obtain a common key. The UE may communicate with one or more other UEs using a lower layer groupcast key that is based at least in part on the com...