US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Methods for 5G-NR RRC connection re-establishment when security is not activated" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,057, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for 5G-NR RRC connection re-establishment when security is not activated" was invented by Bharat Shrestha (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Abhijeet Kolekar (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments include a UE that determines that access stratum (AS) security has not been activated and mobility is handled by a 5G core network. The UE then encodes a radio resource control (RRC) connection re-establishment request for transmission based on the determination. The RRC connection re-establishment request may include an indicator of a UE iden...