ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,295, issued on March 17, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques to generate wireless local area access network fast transition key material based on authentication to a private wireless wide area access network" was invented by Srinath Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.) and Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques to provide for the ability to utilize 3GPP-generated Session Keys that can be generated via a primary authentication or a secondary authentication process for a user equipment (UE) via a private wireless wide area (WWA) access network ...