ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,365, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program" was invented by Markus Staufer (Munich), Peter Schneider (Munich) and Ranganathan Mavureddi Dhanasekaran (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus, method and computer program for causing a first apparatus to: obtain an identifier of a cryptographic key according to a first security communication protocol; signal, to a second apparatus, a first authentication request according to a second security communication protocol, the first authentication request comprising the identifier of the ...