ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,798, issued on April 14, was assigned to DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG (Bonn, Germany).

"Operating a broadband access network of a telecommunications network with a customer premises equipment" was invented by Thomas Haag (Rodgau, Germany), Fabian Schneider (Darmstadt, Germany) and Wolfgang Hurst (Langen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a broadband access network of a telecommunications network with a customer premises equipment includes: a whole sale entity transmitting an authentication request to a service provider using a first application programming interface exposed by the service provider; and the whole s...