US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Sept. 22 for "Methods and apparatus for optimizing UE re-authentication during mobility across different non-3GPP access points under a NSWOF" (Colorado, New Jersey, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,152, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for optimizing UE re-authentication during mobility across different non-3GPP access points under a NSWOF" was invented by Umamaheswar Achari Kakinada (Greenwood Village, Colo.), Imtiyaz Shaikh (Irving, Texas), Maulik Vaidya (Escondido, Calif.), Yildirim Sahin (Englewood, Colo.) and Paul L. Russell Jr. (Lawrence, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for supporting EAP re-authentication for devices, e.g., UEs, connecting to APs such as WiFi APs, which are not 3GPP base stations such as gNBs are descri...