ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,388, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Enhanced hop by hop security" was invented by Nagendra Bykampadi (Bangalore, India), Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France), Silke Holtmanns (Klaukkala, Finland) and Jani Petteri Ekman (Kangasala, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for hop-by-hop security. A proposed method comprises receiving, at a first apparatus and from a second apparatus associated with a first network function, a message directed from the first network function to a second...