ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,407, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Enhanced transport layer security encryption certification management systems and methods" was invented by Matthew Maher (St. Charles, Mo.), George McFalls (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Michael Chan (Auburndale, Fla.), Craig Foucher (Flat Rock, Mich.), Darren Behmlander (White Lake, Mich.) and Michael Miller (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to installing a security certificate. A method may include identifying, by a network provisioning abstraction layer (NPAL) of a network p...