ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,345, issued on July 14, was assigned to Boost SubscriberCo LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Key management for cloud-based 5G wireless networks" was invented by Steven Wilson (Englewood, Colo.) and Brian Peletz (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and automated processes are described to securely grant access to components of a cloud-based data processing system implementing a 5G wireless network. Secure mechanisms are provided to generate, store and retrieve private and public encryption keys that are associated with virtual machines implementing the various components of the wireless network. Generated keys can be...