ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,078, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"5G UDM to IDP federation and identity function" was invented by Nathan Howe (Frankfurt, Germany), Kenneth B. Urquhart (Reno, Nev.), Subramanian Srinivasan (Milpitas, Calif.), Sridhar Kartik Kumar Chatnalli Deshpande (Kirkland, Wash.) and Patrick Foxhoven (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for cloud-based 5G security network architectures intelligent steering, workload isolation, identity, and secure edge steering. Specifically, various approaches are described to integrate cloud-based security...