ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,597, issued on April 29, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for establishing a secure connection between a UE and a network, a user equipment and a communication system" was invented by Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Tamil Nadu, India), Sander De Kievit (Tokyo), Sivabalan Arumugam (Tamil Nadu, India) and Anand Raghawa Prasad (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a User Equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver circuit; and a controller configured to control the transceiver circuit to send, to an Access and mobility Management Function (AMF) of a communication node, an identifier, wherein upon succes...