ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,145, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method for authenticating access layer on basis of public key infrastructure in consideration of handover in next-generation wireless communication system" was invented by Donghyun Je (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jungsoo Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G communication systems such as LTE. In a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention, an operation method of a ser...