ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,400, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for lawful interception for AKMA roaming architecture" was invented by Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India) and Ranganathan Mavureddi Dhanasekaran (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program for receiving an application session establishment request comprising an authentication and key management for applications, AKMA, Key Identifier, A-KID; producing an application key request (Naanf_AKMA_ApplicationKey_Get_request) comprising information elements AKMA Key Identifier A-KID; an application function i...