ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,817, issued on June 24, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Testing network communication within a zero trust security model" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.), Serge Manning (Plano, Texas) and Greg Schumacher (Holliston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of testing a communication system implementing a zero trust architecture. The method comprises sending a request by a test equipment platform to access a microsegment to a policy enforcement point (PEP); sending an authorization request by the PEP to a policy decision point (PDP); authorizing access of the test equipment plat...