ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,657, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Authentication between wireless devices and edge servers" was invented by Shu Guo (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Huarui Liang (Beijing) and Haijing Hu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications including authentication between user equipment and edge computing servers. One or more edge enabler client(s) operating at a user equipment may authenticate with one or more edge computing server(s). The authentication may use generic bootstrapping architecture, among various possibilit...