ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,521, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Authentication and authorization of servers and clients in edge computing" was invented by Christine Jost (Dalby, Sweden), Ferhat Karakoc (Istanbul) and Stefan Hakansson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods performed by a client in an edge data network. Such methods include obtaining an initial access token before accessing the edge data network. The initial access token is based on an identifier of the client. Such methods include establishing a first connection with a server of the edge data network...