US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 11 for "Method of user equipment related to authentication and key agreement procedure, and user equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,263, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of user equipment related to authentication and key agreement procedure, and user equipment" was invented by Kundan Tiwari (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Tamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A procedure to establish latest security key in a UE and a network is disclosed. More specifically, the procedure defines various method to establish latest Kausf in the UE and the network and make the UE and network uses the same Kausf in various security procedure."

The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2021, under Application No. 18/030,952.

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