ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,874, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Security management of trusted network functions" was invented by Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Friedrichsdorf, Germany) and Andreas Kunz (Ladenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to a network repository function (NRF) that receives a first signaling as a network function (NF) request from a NF, the NF request including a NF type, a NF identifier (ID), and NF security state information. The NRF verifies a NF security state based on the NF ID and the NF security state information. The NRF transmit...