ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,961, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for path information-based physical layer security" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to transmitting and/or receiving devices securing or authenticating communications at a physical layer based on generated or received path information."

The patent was filed on June 27, 2022, under Application No. 17/809,140.

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