ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,188, issued on July 8, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for handling authentication failure during security association establishment" was invented by Jennifer Liu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interworking function in a core network system, such as a 5G core network, attempts to establish a secure association with user equipment (UE) in an untrusted access network. When the secure association is not accepted by the 5G core network, the UE receives from the core network a response including a message type indicating that Non-3GPP access to the 5G core network is ...