ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,915, issued on April 15, was assigned to CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS Co. LTD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Beijing) and CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Provisioning method and terminal device" was invented by Ye Tian (Beijing) and Xiaoming Ren (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a provisioning method and a terminal device. The provisioning method is applied to the terminal device, including: the security module establishes a secure channel with the certificate authority CA server through one or more session keys shared by the security module and the CA server; and obtains one or more di...