US Patent Issued to Intertrust Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Network security systems and methods" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,146, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intertrust Technologies Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Network security systems and methods" was invented by David P. Maher (Philadelphia) and Gilles Boccon-Gibod (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing connected devices and associated network connections. In certain embodiments, trust, privacy, safety, and/or security of information communicated between connected devices may be established in part through use of security associations and/or shared group tokens. In some embodiments, these security associations may be used to form an ex...