ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,773, issued on June 24.
"Systems and methods for decentralized network management" was invented by Bijan Reza Bahari (Laurel, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing decentralized network management comprises a private, secure network that has a plurality of authentication nodes that collectively authenticate client devices or perform other security functions. That is, the security functions are decentralized such that they are performed by a plurality of authentication nodes that communicate with one another to arrive at a consensus for a given security action, such as whether to authenticate a user. Decentralizing...