ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,360, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for establishing secure transmission channel, key determining method, and communication apparatus" was invented by Longhua Guo (Shanghai), Yuanping Zhu (Shanghai) and Rong Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a key determining method, and a communication apparatus. The method is applied to a donor node central unit which contains a control plane entity and a user plane entity, and the method includes: deriving a first key based on a root key, an internet protocol (IP) address of a distributed unit of...