ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,291, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Authentication method and related apparatus" was invented by Peng Liu (Shenzhen, China), Huiming Wang (Xi'an, China), Xuan Wei (Xi'an, China) and Jianjun Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides an authentication method and a related apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives a first received encrypted reference signal corresponding to a first sent encrypted reference signal that is generated by an access network device using a pilot key and a first reference signal and transmitted through a channel;...