US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 27 for "Device authentication and network function registration and discovery for 5G vertical networks" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,070, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device authentication and network function registration and discovery for 5G vertical networks" was invented by Ravi Shekhar (Maharastra, India) and Vimal Srivastava (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides solutions to registration and discovery of NFs in the vertical 5G networks, at the operator network, as well as handling tasks such as authentication of connecting end terminals at the operator network level. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at network controller of an operator network and from an en...