ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,591, issued on July 28, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Security in networks" was invented by Jean-Luc Rene Bouthemy (Sammamish, Wash.) and Gregg Allan Atkins (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques related to providing secure communications in a network are disclosed. In one example, an alternative for providing secure communication in an automated way in a network including retrieving by a network server configured to manage one or more network nodes in the network a security certificate and other security configuration corresponding to a network node. Transmitted, by the network server, inc...