ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,959, issued on July 1, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Session request method and apparatus, terminal, and storage medium" was invented by Yuze Liu (Guangdong, China), Shilin You (Guangdong, China), Jin Peng (Guangdong, China) and Zhaoji Lin (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A session request method, a session request apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium are provided. The session request method includes: generating an authentication server key when a key agreement authentication is passed; determining, according to the authentication server key, a key identifier of an authentication and key managem...