US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on July 22 for "Systems and methods for secure policy messaging" (Pennsylvania, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,599, issued on July 22, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for secure policy messaging" was invented by Vinod Kumar Choyi (Conshohocken, Pa.), Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, Texas) and Yousif Targali (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a policy control function (PCF) device may receive a PCF device key uniquely associated with a user equipment (UE). The PCF device may generate an integrity key and an encryption key based on the PCF device key and an identifier of the PCF device. The PCF device may generate, based on the integrity ...