OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A jury has awarded $30 million to an Omaha company that accused wireless provider Sprint PCS of violating its patents on security technology.

The technology helps smartphones, tablets and broadband mobile cards access the Internet. The verdict came at the end of a trial in U.S. District Court in Omaha two weeks ago.

Prism Technologies sued Sprint Spectrum LP, which does business as Sprint PCS, and other companies, for using systems that Prism “pioneered and patented,” even though Sprint had no legal right to do so.

Attorneys for Prism say the company’s predecessor, Prism Resources Inc., began work on the project that led to the patents by early 1996 and sought a patent in 1997.

Sprint can still appeal.