ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,164, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Managing security keys in a communication system" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security key management method can be implemented a user equipment (UE) capable of concurrent communication with a master node (MN) and a secondary node (SN). The method includes transitioning (504) from a connected state in which the UE communicates with the MN using a first security key and with the SN using a second security key (502), to an inactive state in which a radio connection between the UE and a radio access network (...