ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,096, issued on May 13, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Security context for target AMF" was invented by Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Friedrichsdorf, Germany), Andreas Kunz (Ladenburg, Germany) and Genadi Velev (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for security context handling during AMF reallocation. One apparatus in a mobile communication network includes a network interface and a processor that derives a Reroute Security Context and derives a first authentication parameter for authenticating a Target AMF. The network interface receives a Key Re...