ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,063, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Network security" was invented by Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India), Chaitanya Aggarwal (Munich), Anja Jerichow (Munich) and Georgios Gkellas (Petroupoli Attikis, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus configured to function as a network function repository, and transmit to a network function consumer an access token authorizing access to a service provided by a network function producer, the access token comprising an at least one of: indication of a fully qualified do...