ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,165, issued on June 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Secure aggregation of IoT messages" was invented by Thiago Macieira (Portland, Ore.), Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.) and Joseph Morrow (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes processing circuitry; and a memory device including instructions embodied thereon, wherein the instructions, which when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the processing circuitry to perform operations comprising: accessing input data, at an aggregator node, the input data including sensor data from a plurality of sensor nodes, each sensor data havin...