ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,792, issued on June 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"End-to-end secure communications for privileged 5G network traffic" was invented by Paramvir Bahl (Bellevue, Wash.) and Rachee Singh (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software-defined networking and network function virtualization constructs are leveraged across diverse portions of 5G network infrastructure including radio access network, mobile core, and wide area network to enable a security property to be implemented for a network slice from end-to-end to provide for strong logical and/or physical isolation of slice traffic f...