ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,791, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Base station, access mobility management entity, evolved serving mobile location center and user equipment" was invented by Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station for a mobile telecommunications system, comprising circuitry configured to: obtain time-sensitive network information or enhanced positioning assistance information; encrypt the time-sensitive network information or the enhanced positioning assistance information for including the encrypted time-sensitive ne...