ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,498, issued on May 12, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Key and identifier for session establishment" was invented by Markus Staufer (Munich), Peter Schneider (Munich), Ranganathan Mavureddi Dhanasekaran (Munich) and Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method comprising: monitoring whether a network receives an authorization request for establishing a session of an AF with a UE, wherein the authorization request comprises a permanent identifier of the AF, a received temporary identifier of the AF, and a temporary identifier of a UE; if the authorization request is received: forming a ...