ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,918, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Communication terminal, core network device, core network node, network node, and key deriving method" was invented by Hironori Ito (Tokyo), Sivakamy Lakshminarayanan (Chennai, India), Anand Raghawa Prasad (Tokyo), Sivabalan Arumugam (Chennai, India) and Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication terminal capable of preventing a reduction in security level that is caused at the time of establishing multiple connections via 3GPP Access and Non-3GPP Access. A communication terminal according to the present disclosure includes: a ...