ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,690, issued on May 19, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for multi-cloud cellular service authentication" was invented by Sri Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.), Timothy P. Stammers (Raleigh, N.C.), Ravi Kiran Guntupalli (Cumming, Ga.) and Vimal Srivastava (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for authentication in a multi-cloud cellular service. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at a controller of a local site within the multi-cloud cellular service, a network connection request from a device, the cloud-base...