US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Authentication and key management for applications (AKMA) application key (K AF ) refresh" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,296, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Authentication and key management for applications (AKMA) application key (K AF ) refresh" was invented by Adrian Edward Escott (Reading, Great Britain) and Anand Palanigounder (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for wireless communications. For instance, a process may include generating an anchor key based on an authentication server function key; associating a count value with the anchor key; generating a temporary device identifier based on the authentication server function key; generating an enhanced key identifier base...