US Patent Issued to Itron on March 24 for "Man-in-the-middle extender defense in data communications" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,542, issued on March 24, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Man-in-the-middle extender defense in data communications" was invented by Bernard M. Woodland (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining whether a received message at a communications device is from a legitimate second device may include building a message intended for a legitimate second device, generating a time delay using a secret key known to the device and the legitimate second device, sending the built message to the legitimate second device, starting a timer at the time of sending the built message, receiving a response to th...