ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,625, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Man in the middle attack detection in BLE high accuracy distance measurement" was invented by Guner Arslan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that is capable of detecting a Man in the Middle attack is disclosed. The system includes a receive circuit for receiving incoming packets. The system also includes a digitized model of at least part of the receive circuit and optionally part of the transmit circuit. The system compares the output from the digitized model with the output from the read circuit to determine the likelihood of a ...