ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,290, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Security negotiation method and apparatus" was invented by Rong Wu (Shenzhen, China), Bo Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Shuaishuai Tan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security negotiation method includes receiving, by a terminal, security negotiation information from a centralized unit control plane (CU-CP)/a centralized unit user plane (CU-UP), where the security negotiation information includes an integrity protection indication identifier of the CU-UP, and determining, by the terminal based on the integrity protection indicat...