ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,704, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ruckus IP Hollings LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Certificate-based connections reflecting a network architecture" was invented by Huang-Ju Hsieh (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer network device that implements a data plane is described. During operation, the computer network device may receive, associated with a second computer network device, a request to establish a connection, where the request includes an instance of a first type of certificate associated with a first certificate authority for a first layer in a hierarchy in the network, and/or an instance of a second ty...