ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,338, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"User plane integrity protection" was invented by Monica Wifvesson (Lund, Sweden) and Noamen Ben Henda (Vallingby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a user equipment, UE, for enabling user plane integrity protection of data in a packet data convergence protocol, PDCP, in a radio access network is provided. The method includes sending a session establishment request towards a session management node that includes an indication of a user plane integrity protection mode supported by the UE. The method further includes re...