ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,078, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"User equipment authentication for applications" was invented by Andreas Kunz (Ladenburg, Germany) and Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Friedrichsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to authenticating user equipment (UE) for applications. A first communication device (e.g., a network entity, a server device) authenticates a second communication device (e.g., a UE) for authentication and key management for applications (AKMA) with a challenge, such as an authentication vector (AV), computed based on ...