US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on April 8 for "Secure sniffing of wireless connections with forward secrecy" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,717, issued on April 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Secure sniffing of wireless connections with forward secrecy" was invented by Yedidya Yechiel Vachnish (Revava, Israel), Barak Cherches (Ramat Ha'Kovesh, Israel) and Avi Sammy Berkovich (Herzeliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one example, a method includes establishing, by a sniffer provisioning server (SPS) of a first wireless device, a trusted relationship between the first wireless device and a sniffer tool using a public key of the sniffer tool. An out-of-band (OOB) key exchange provisions the public key of the sniffer tool to the wire...