US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on April 14 for "Subscription concealed identifier privacy" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,181, issued on April 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Subscription concealed identifier privacy" was invented by John Mattsson (Taby, Sweden), Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Erik Thormarker (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment ("UE") in a wireless communication network can generate a padded identifier by inserting a padding bitstring in a field of an identifier associated with the UE. The UE can further encrypt the padded identifier to generate a concealed padded identifier. The UE can further transmit the concealed padded identifier to a network node oper...