US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN MOBILE on Feb. 24 for "Certificate enrollment for shared network element" (Japanese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,921, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Certificate enrollment for shared network element" was invented by Francesca Rivera (Tokyo), Raghavendran Ramiya (Indore, India) and Ritesh Kumar Kalle (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing secure connections between a shared network node and a plurality of network nodes of different mobile network operators (MNOs) is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a first network node of a first MNO among the different MNOs, a digital certificate issued to the first network node from a public key infrastructure (PKI) service provider, the PKI se...