ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,734, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Registration method and apparatus for registering user equipment" was invented by Juan Deng (Hangzhou, China) and Chengdong He (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application relate to a registration method and apparatus to ensure that user equipment does not discard and processes a received authentication request message sent by a target AMF. In the registration method, an initial AMF sends indication information to the UE, or the target AMF sends, to the UE, the authentication request message that includes indica...