ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,093, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Beijing) and CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Configuration method and apparatus for terminal device, and communication device" was invented by Ye Tian (Beijing), Li Su (Beijing), Shen He (Beijing), Haitao Du (Beijing), Jie Ma (Beijing) and Wenshu Jiang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration method includes: the terminal device generating a second key on the basis of a first key, and performing encryption and/or integrity protection on a certificate request message on the basis of the second key; and sen...