ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,919, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Certificate enrollment system and method for non-virtual machine based network element" was invented by Francesca Rivera (Tokyo) and Ritesh Kumar Kalle (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing full-automated enrollment of certificates in a mobile communications network, includes: a network element configured to request a certificate; at least one server configured to authenticate the network element and provide certificate authority (CA) information to the network element; and a certificate manager configured to obtain a preconfigured policy fo...