ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,701, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China) and University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China).

"Subscription data management method and apparatus" was invented by Kaiping Xue (Hefei, China), Hangyu Tian (Hefei, China) and Jianan Hong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to a subscription data management method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: a first network element receives, from a second network element, a request message for subscription data; obtains a security token of a terminal device, where the security token is used to ve...