MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517084129 A) filed by Rakuten Symphony, Inc., Tokyo, on Sept. 4, for 'cloud-native function authentication at layer 2.'

Inventor(s) include Chintan Shah, Paromita; Bykampadi, Nagendra Shridhar; and Adharapurapu, Krishna Pramod.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to cloud-native function (CNF) authentication during the instantiation and bootstrapping of the CNF. According to embodiments, a method may be provided, including sending, by a supplicant to an authenticator during an...