ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,418, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VELOCLOUD NETWORKS LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Authentication and authorization in a private mobile network" was invented by Anand Srinivas (San Francisco), Xiao H. Gao (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Sameer Naik (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for implementing a software-defined private mobile network (SD-PMN) for an entity. At a physical location of the entity, the method deploys a first set of control plane components for the SD-PMN, the first set of control plane components including a security gateway, a user-plane function (UPF), an AMF (access and...