US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on June 2 for "Securely provisioning a service to a customer equipment" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,407, issued on June 2, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Securely provisioning a service to a customer equipment" was invented by Elliot G. Eichen (Arlington, Mass.), Tim D. Paiement (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Robert A. Sartini (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive a certificate, such as an X.509 certificate, that includes authentication information. The authentication information may uniquely identify a customer equipment. The device may authenticate the customer equipment using the authentication information. The device may obtain configuration informa...