ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,980, issued on May 12, was assigned to AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for secure internet-of-things (IoT) device to cloud integration" was invented by Dongdong Li (Frisco, Texas) and George Ransom Murphy (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in which a cloud connection stack and a security transport stack are each partially or entirely implemented for execution in a modem (e.g., a cellular modem) or a SIM component (e.g., an IoT SAFE SIM applet) of the device, rather than on the device's own OS and processor. Some or all of the app...