US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for managing public key infrastructure certificates for components of a network" (New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,778, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for managing public key infrastructure certificates for components of a network" was invented by Amit Mahajan (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Jayesh Kumar Laad (Ashland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may determine that a network function of a network has been instantiated to facilitate communication via the network. The device may request a certificate authority to provide a certificate for the network function. The device may receive, from the certificate authority, the certificate. The device may generate a ...