US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 9 for "Authenticating radio access network components using distributed ledger technology" (Illinois, North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,972, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Authenticating radio access network components using distributed ledger technology" was invented by Om Prakash Suthar (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Rajiv Asati (Morrisville, N.C.) and Santanu Dasgupta (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Blockchain technology is used to provide distributed authentication, entitlements and trust among different virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) elements. An enterprise blockchain with interfaces enables multi-vendor vRAN deployment across multiple service providers. In another embodiment, a method is provided for au...