ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,171, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Network equipment and user equipment" was invented by Haorui Yang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device and user equipment (UE) are provided. The network device includes a memory, a transceiver, a processor, and a bus system, the processor is configured to execute the instructions in the memory to perform operations of: in response to receiving an authentication request, sending a first authentication message to a first UE, the authentication request being used to trigger an authentication flow for a second UE req...