US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on May 12 for "Derived credential service for implementing delegated functions" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,986, issued on May 12, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Derived credential service for implementing delegated functions" was invented by Stuart G Wilson (York, Great Britain), Robert D Hopley (Lunenburg, Mass.) and Bjorn Hjelm (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for hosting a derived credential service for implementing delegated functions are provided. Credentials of a hardware module within a device and authentication of the device with a core network are used to generate a derived credential. The derived credential is mapped...