ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,625, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Enriched A-KID for AKMA authentication service" was invented by Rajesh Babu Natarajan (Bangalore, India) and Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India).

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. In one embodiment, an AKMA element (1200) handles an enriched AKMA Key Identifier (A-KID) (800) having an identifier format with a username (802) and a realm (804) separated by an @-symbol (806). The username includes a Routing Indicator (RID) (812), an AKMA...