US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on May 12 for "Secure zero touch provisioning of network devices using Bluetooth application" (Irish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,985, issued on May 12, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Secure zero touch provisioning of network devices using Bluetooth application" was invented by Eamon Doyle (Dublin) and Saurabh Singhal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for provisioning a network device can include, on a network device in a factory-default state and having a factory-installed Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP) agent, enabling a wireless communication capability of the network device. Upon detecting the wireless communication capability being enabled, the SZTP agent attempts to establish a connection with an ...