ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,247, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and device for reducing security risk in communication" was invented by Takahito Yoshizawa (Boom, Belgium), Nivedya Parambath Sasi (Bengaluru, India) and Rohini Rajendran (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system, a UE (User Equipment), a communication method and a computer readable medium may be provided. The communication system (100) includes: a first UE (User Equipment) (110) including a first controller and a first transceiver, wherein the first controller is configured to control the transceiver to send a message including L2 ID (La...