ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,038, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Partial integrity protection in telecommunication systems" was invented by Benoist Sebire (Tokyo), Samuli Turtinen (Ii, Finland), Chunli Wu (Beijing) and Suresh Nair (Whippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to partial integrity protection in telecommunication systems. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a solution for implementing partial integrity protection. The terminal device receives configuration of the partial integrity protection and applies the integrity...