US Patent Issued to Itron on Oct. 14 for "Ad-hoc authenticated group discovery" (South Carolina, Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,845, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Ad-hoc authenticated group discovery" was invented by Benjamin N. Damm (Point Roberts, Wash.), Eric Donald White (Seneca, S.C.) and Tommi Petteri Parkkila (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for ad-hoc authenticated group discovery and data sharing in a mesh network. A group of devices is created without leaving a security gap due to the open communication needed to establish the discovery of the devices forming the group. The group can be authenticated autonomously following network discovery of the devices. Instead of requiring...