US Patent Issued to IoT and M2M Technologies on June 9 for "Mutually authenticated ECDHE key exchange for a device and a network using multiple PKI key pairs" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,176, issued on June 9, was assigned to IoT and M2M Technologies LLC (Evanston, Ill.).

"Mutually authenticated ECDHE key exchange for a device and a network using multiple PKI key pairs" was invented by John A. Nix (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device can (i) store public keys Ss and Sn for a network and (ii) record private key sd. A network can record a corresponding private keys ss and sn. The device can (i) generate a device ephemeral PKI key pair (Ed, ed) and (ii) send public key Ed to the network. The device can receive an ephemeral public key Es from the network. The device can calculate values for A: an ellipt...