ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,668, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Use of user equipment (UE) identifiers for registration in fifth generation (5G) systems" was invented by Alexandre Saso Stojanovski (Paris) and Robert Zaus (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media are described for the utilization of user equipment (UE) identifiers for registration in fifth generation (5G) systems. An apparatus of a user equipment includes processing circuitry to: retrieve a first 5G-GUTI from a memory; generate a registration request message that includes the first 5G-GUTI; encode the registration request mess...