ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,083, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Security for group communication" was invented by Goran Selander (Bromma, Sweden) and John Mattsson (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enabling secure group communication in a communication network is performed in a sending node and includes providing signature verification related information to a plurality of listening nodes and sending a group message to the plurality of listening nodes, the group message including signature verification related information of the sending node. A method, nodes, computer programs, and...