ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,946, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Authentication proxy for AKMA authentication service" was invented by Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India), Suresh P Nair (Estero, Fla.) and Ranganathan Mavureddi Dhanasekaran (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software of performing an Authentication and Key Management for Applications (AKMA) authentication service. An AKMA authentication proxy resides between User Equipment (UE) and a plurality of Application Functions (AFs). The AKMA authentication proxy receive an application session establishment request message from the UE req...