ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,421, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (New Delhi).

"Method and system to protect clear text transmission of user identity in wireless networks" was invented by Brejesh Lall (New Delhi), Dhiman Saha (Chattisgarh, India), Anand Madhavrao Baswade (Chattisgarh, India), Pabitra Pal (New Delhi) and Aman Verma (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method to protect clear text transmission of user identity in wireless networks. The method includes sending a registration request to a Home Network (HN) to start an authentication process of a User Equipment (UE). In addi...