US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Elevated device authentication through mutual identification" (Arizona, Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,944, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Elevated device authentication through mutual identification" was invented by David M. Cesarano (Queen Creek, Ariz.), Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Logan Bailey (Atlanta) and Mir Farhan Ali (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product authenticate devices using remote mutual identification. The method comprises determining that a network device requires management, where the network device is deployed in a location. The method also comprises identifying a trusted...