ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,914, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"ZTP message exchange using Kafka" was invented by Orlando Cuavas (Littleton, Colo.), Prakash Srinivasan (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Velmurugan Manoharan (Commerce City, Colo.), Ian King (Cheyenne, Wyo.) and Nathan Sones (Cheyenne, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a messaging system is provided, where message streaming is employed to exchange information among various components in a network to facilitate Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP hereinafter). In those embodiments, messages may pass through the messaging system via REST API or K...