ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,951, issued on July 14, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Proxy certificate management for NFV environment (PCS)" was invented by Makan Pourzandi (Montreal), Bernard Smeets (Dalby, Sweden), Harri Hakala (Turku, Finland), Tommy Arngren (Sodra Sunderbyn, Sweden) and Yosr Jarraya (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and nodes are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a management node is provided. The management node includes processing circuitry configured to receive an origin certificate for a first service type where the received origin certificate includes a public k...