US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 17 for "5G new radio-avoiding redundant as security checks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,925, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"5G new radio-avoiding redundant as security checks" was invented by Muthukumaran Dhanapal (Dublin, Calif.), Li Su (San Jose, Calif.) and Vijay Venkataraman (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods for improvements to security checks in a fifth generation (5G) New Radio (NR) network, including mechanisms to avoid redundant access stratum (AS) security checks. The wireless device may determine that an on-demand system information block (SIB) request is pending transmission and may ...