US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on June 24 for "Optimized security mode command procedure to reduce communication setup failures" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,172, issued on June 24, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Optimized security mode command procedure to reduce communication setup failures" was invented by Muhammad Tawhidur Rahman (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to use of an optimized security mode command (SMC) procedure for securing communications. When connecting to a different cellular network (e.g., from a 5th generation (5G) Radio Access Network (RAN)) to a different cellular network (e.g., a 4th generation (4G) RAN), a User Equipment (UE) performs the SMC procedure without processing ...