ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,792, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Secure communication method, related apparatus, and system" was invented by Guoqiang Shao (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure communication method includes a security edge protection proxy (SEPP) device at a transmitting end that obtains a message modification policy of an Internet Protocol (IP) exchange service (IPX) device interconnected with the SEPP device, and then sends a first N32 message to the IPX device, where the first N32 message carries a first signaling message and the message modification policy. The IPX devic...