ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,159, issued on July 28, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, device, and system for core network device re-allocation in wireless network" was invented by Shilin You (Shenzhen, China), Jiyan Cai (Shenzhen, China), Jinguo Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Yuze Liu (Shenzhen, China), Jin Peng (Shenzhen, China), Zhen Xing (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaoji Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure generally relates performing UE authentication and registration with the core network, and in particular, to supporting secure interactions between the UE and the target AMF when the UE is re-allocated to the target A...