ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,627, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Authentication and authorization method and apparatus" was invented by Yizhuang Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A session management network element receives a session establishment request message from a terminal device, where the session establishment request message is used to request to establish a session with a data network. The session management network element determines whether an authentication result of authentication and/or authorization by the data network on the terminal device exists. When it is determined that the aut...