ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,408, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"User plane traffic handling for emergency case" was invented by Jing Ping (Chengdu, China) and Ranganathan Mavureddi Dhanasekaran (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first terminal device determines that UP traffic is to be communicated between the first terminal device and a second terminal device without confidentiality protection. The first terminal device determines that the UP traffic is to be communicated between the first terminal device and the second terminal device without integrity protection or with a partial integrity protection. The firs...