ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,591, issued on May 20, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Random data integrity protection in a wireless communication network" was invented by Kun Lu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Gregory David Schumacher (Holliston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication network serves random data integrity protection to a User Equipment (UE). A network controller selects the random data integrity protection for a UE session based on UE context. The network control signals the random integrity protection for the UE session to a wireless access node which signals the UE. A wireless access node generates d...