US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on June 23 for "Authentication of a communications device" (Finnish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,259, issued on June 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Authentication of a communications device" was invented by Vesa Lehtovirta (Espoo, Finland), Vesa Torvinen (Sauvo, Finland) and Noamen Ben Henda (Vallingby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed by a communications device. The method may comprise receiving, via a control plane of a serving network of the communications device, a message in an authentication procedure for authentication of the communications device with a home network of the communications device. The message in some embodiments indicates that the authent...