ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,817, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF JEDDAH (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

"User device authentication methods using physical unclonable function for cellular communications" was invented by Sajjad Hussain Chauhdary (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Sajid Saleem Chauhdary (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed A. Alqarni (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed S. Alkatheiri (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user authentication method performed by a user equipment, UE, in a cellular network includes transmitting to a serving node an attachment request including a user identifier, receiving, form the serving node, SN, an aut...