ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,893, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for communication establishment in authentication and key management for applications (AKMA)" was invented by Rajavelsamy Rajadurai (Bangalore, India), Nivedya Parambath Sasi (Bangalore, India) and Rohini Rajendran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Embodiments herein provide a system and method for key refresh in Authentication and Key Management for Applications (AKMA). The proposed method is to supp...