US Patent Issued to Adeia Emerging Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Subscription concealed identifier (SUCI) supporting post-quantum cryptography" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,677, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adeia Emerging Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Subscription concealed identifier (SUCI) supporting post-quantum cryptography" was invented by John A. Nix (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a network can authenticate using a subscription concealed identifier (SUCI). The device can store (i) a plaintext subscription permanent identifier (SUPI) for the device, (ii) a network static public key, and (iii) a key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) for encryption using the network static public key. The network can store (i) a device database with the SUPI, (ii) a network sta...