ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,428, issued on May 26, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Distinct user plane security" was invented by Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Friedrichsdorf, Germany), Andreas Kunz (Ladenburg, Germany), Genadi Velev (Darmstadt, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany), Joachim Loehr (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Hyung-Nam Choi (Ottobrunn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for setting up multiple user plane ("UP") security contexts. One apparatus includes a transceiver and a processor that derives distinct UP integrity and ciphering keys for a selected central uni...