ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,377, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Anti-eavesdropping using smart piloting, multiple transmit antennas and transmit beamforming" was invented by Yingbo Hua (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication between a node A and a node B provides physical layer security. The node A has disjoint non-empty sets of antennas A1 and A2. The node B has disjoint sets of antennas B1 and B2, where B1 is non-empty. The method involves the steps of transmitting a first pilot signal from B using only B1; receiving the first pilot signal by the ...