US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on July 28 for "Key generation method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,082, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Key generation method and apparatus" was invented by Longhua Guo (Shanghai), Yuanping Zhu (Shanghai), Li Hu (Shanghai) and Rong Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key generation method and an apparatus are provided. One example key generation method includes the following steps: determining, by a communication apparatus, that a master base station or a secondary base station serves as an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor, wherein the master base station and the secondary base station are connected to an IAB node; and pe...