ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,776, issued on June 24, was assigned to GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Service to service communication and authentication via a central network mesh" was invented by Niaz Ahsan Jalal (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Abdesslem Dridi (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to techniques for service to service communication and authentication via a network mesh. Particularly, aspects are directed to receiving, at a network mesh, a service request for a first service, and obtaining information associated with the first service. The information includes a location of a f...