ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,127, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Rogue network function re-authorization in a communication network" was invented by Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India), Narasimha Rao Pulipati (Redmond, Wash.) and Suresh Nair (Estero, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for preventing rogue network functions in a communication network are provided. For example, a method comprises obtaining information identifying one or more network entities suspected of malicious activity operating within the communication network, causing a re-authorization of the one or more network entities suspected of mal...