ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,597, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Domain name system security extension (DNSSEC) for container signature management" was invented by Daniel Migault (Montreal), Stere Preda (Longueuil, Canada) and Thomas Ingemarsson (Saltsjo-Boo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a verifier is provided. The verifier includes processing circuitry configured to obtain a hash algorithm and a fully qualified domain name, FQDN, associated with a virtual network function, VNF, image, determine an identifier for ...