US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 22 for "Securing dynamic host control protocol" (Washington, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,676, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Securing dynamic host control protocol" was invented by Vivek Krishnan Devarajan (Seattle), Luis Fernando Gonzalez Fernandez (Seattle), Tuhin Gupta (Seattle), William Bennett (Omaha, Neb.), Lee Douglas Goodrich (Seattle) and Joseph Papa (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for securing DHCP communications between DHCP servers and client devices in a network to authenticate the devices before providing IP addresses. A client device may store one-time programmable (OTP) seed parameters, and use the OTP seed parameters to derive a unique private...