ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,289, issued on June 17, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Adaptive mutual trust model for dynamic and diversity multi-domain network" was invented by Jing Ping (Chengdu, China) and Anatoly Andrianov (Schaumburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity that creates an adaptive trust model, by a trust model adaptor of the apparatus, configured to establish a trust relationship with an other apparatus according to a composition of trust of the other apparatus derived from a trust evaluator of the other apparatus and a composition of trust of the apparatus derived from a trust evaluator of the apparatus. The ...