ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,779, issued on July 8, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Methods and procedures to protect network nodes in cloud-based telecommunication and enterprise networks" was invented by Bharath Kumar Ravichandran (Tokyo), John Carse (Tokyo) and Pradheepkumar Singaravelu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method, system, and computer-readable recording medium for controlling zero trust remote access to a network system. The method includes: receiving a request of a user to access a target node in the network system; determining whether the user is a trusted user or an untrusted user based on whether the user has ...