ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,267, issued on June 23, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Trust architecture for telecommunication network slice security" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.), Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.) and Galip Murat Karabulut (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, systems and methods for a trust architecture for telecommunication network slice security are disclosed. In some embodiments a trust architecture for telecommunication network slice security distributes network security functionality to individual network entities that constitute elements of a n...