ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,319, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for determining security protection mode" was invented by Bo Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for determining a security protection mode. In the method, a terminal device may determine a security protection mode of a second communications mode based on security protection information in a first communications mode. In this way, when switching from the first communications mode to the second communications mode, the terminal device may directly use the security protection mode co...