US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for provisioning security policies for deriving session keys" (Pennsylvania, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,912, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for provisioning security policies for deriving session keys" was invented by Vinod Kumar Choyi (Conshohocken, Pa.), Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, Texas) and Yousif Targali (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an key management server function (KMSF) may generate a security policy, wherein the security policy is an application function (AF)-specific security policy or a network function (NF)-specific security policy. The KMSF may transmit, to one of an AF or an NF, the sec...