ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,867, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for selecting an authentication type for authentication related to a terminal device" was invented by Wen Zhang (Shanghai), Tianmei Liang (Shanghai), Juying Gan (Shanghai), Gang Ren (Shanghai) and Stefan Rommer (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for authentication. A method performed by a session management and gateway entity comprises receiving a create session request comprising an identity of a terminal device from a mobile manageme...