US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Jan. 20 for "Key distribution for hop by hop security in IAB networks" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,165, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Key distribution for hop by hop security in IAB networks" was invented by Christine Jost (Dalby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by an integrated access and backhaul, IAB, node and an IAB node for securely communicating with at least one second IAB node is provided. A connection is established a connection with a donor IAB node of a network. A first message including a symmetric key to use in securely communicating with the at least one second IAB node is received from the donor IAB node. A second message is transformed into a ...