US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 17 for "Enhanced user equipment security against attacks in a 4g or 5g network" (Chinese, Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,914, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Enhanced user equipment security against attacks in a 4g or 5g network" was invented by Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar (Mysuru, India), Huarui Liang (Beijing), Nirlesh Koshta (Bangalore, India), Shu Guo (Beijing) and Sridhar Prakasam (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE may receive a first GUTI from a network. The UE may transition to a Connected mode in response to a paging procedure with the network. The UE may take actions to ensure that a second GUTI is obtained from the network. Other aspects are described."

The patent was filed on Aug....