US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN MOBILE on Feb. 25 for "Enhanced authentication procedure for O-RAN network elements" (Japanese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,521, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Enhanced authentication procedure for O-RAN network elements" was invented by Francesca Rivera (Tokyo), Raghavendran Ramiya (Bengaluru, India) and Ritesh Kumar Kalle (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and device for enhanced authentication of network elements are provided. The device may be configured to: obtain device information from a network element, transmit the obtained device information to a storage device in order to determine whether the network element supports authentication in accordance with a first authentication protocol, based o...