ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,301, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Security key management in dual connectivity operation" was invented by Srinivasan Selvaganapathy (Bangalore, India), Ahmad Awada (Munich) and Halit Murat Gursu (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure inter alia relates to a user equipment configured to support dual connectivity operation towards a master node and a secondary node of a radio access network, the user equipment comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the us...