ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,004, issued on June 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Method and system for secure communication" was invented by Stephen Lindor Reid (Dallas) and Prithvi Narayana Rao (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for secure communication between an initiator and a recipient is provided that includes sending to the recipient by the initiator a command packet, the command packet including a randomly generated time offset designating a time window in which the initiator expects to receive a response packet from the recipient, and receiving by the initiator in response to the command packet a response packet ...