ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,392, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method" was invented by Sander De Kievit (Tokyo), Anand Raghawa Prasad (Tokyo) and Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a memory storing one or more instructions and a processor. The processor execute the one or more instructions to: receive update information from an external apparatus, the update information corresponding to a network communication; obtain a Subscription Concealed Identifier (SUCI) based on the update information; and transmit the SUCI to the external ap...