ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,921, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Securing border gateway protocol route propagation and updating" was invented by Anubhav Visen (Overland Park, Kan.) and Abhishek Bhargava (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to propagating and authenticating border gateway protocol route advertisements. A trusted authority device stores and distributes routing information for various autonomous systems. The trusted authority device also issues and maintains digital certificates that are e...