US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 29 for "Initial security activation for medium access control layer" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,403, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Initial security activation for medium access control layer" was invented by Icaro Leonardo Da Silva (Stockholm) and Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment receives a first message for initial Access Stratum (AS) security activation via a higher layer protocol, wherein the first message includes configuration information for security in a lower layer protocol and the first message is included in a second message of the lower layer protocol. In response to receiving the first message, the UE derives ...