US Patent Issued to IRDETO on June 16 for "Method and apparatus for utilization of domain name system for efficient certificate data retrieval in plug and charge ecosystems" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,309, issued on June 16, was assigned to IRDETO B.V. (Hoofddorp, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for utilization of domain name system for efficient certificate data retrieval in plug and charge ecosystems" was invented by James Patrick Simmermon (Chehalis, Wash.) and Darlene Riley Nepean (Ontario, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for improving the efficiency of locating a pool operator in a Plug and Charge ecosystem. The method includes receiving an identifier associated with a user, using a Domain Name System (DNS) as a reference engine for the received identifier, generating a fully qualified domain nam...