US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Nov. 18 for "Indication of provisioning protocol for credentials to access a non-public network" (Swedish, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,334, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Indication of provisioning protocol for credentials to access a non-public network" was invented by Vesa Lehtovirta (Espoo, Finland), Christine Jost (Dalby, Sweden) and Helena Vahidi Mazinani (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a user equipment (UE) to obtain security credentials for accessing a non-public network (NPN) is provided. The method comprises sending, to an onboarding network (ON), a registration request that includes an identifier of the UE, and obtaining an indication of a credential provisioning protocol (C...