US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 1 for "Methods and entities for end-to-end security in communication sessions" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,819, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and entities for end-to-end security in communication sessions" was invented by Patrik Salmela (Espoo, Finland), Mohit Sethi (Helsinki) and Andrey Shorov (Vantaa Uusimaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for enabling end-to-end security for a communication session between a user equipment (UE), registered with a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) network, and a gateway and/or service of an external network are disclosed. In the methods additional keys are generated based on keys obtained in a secondary authentication between ...