ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,470, issued on May 12, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Encryption key management for NB-IoT devices" was invented by Venson Shaw (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by one or more network node(s) of a wireless telecommunications network to dynamically manage encryption keys for multiple narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) devices of the network. The network node(s) can maintain a database that stores a device profile for each of the NB-IoT devices and obtain multiple encryption keys for the multiple NB-IoT devices. The encryption keys are associated with different encryption stre...