US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on March 3 for "Inline security key exchange" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,953, issued on March 3, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Inline security key exchange" was invented by Abilash Menon (Boxborough, Mass.), Avinash Prakash Bhat (Bedford, Mass.) and Anna Yungelson (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for inline security key exchanges between network devices. An example network device includes one or more processors and memory coupled to the one or more processors. The memory stores instructions that, upon execution, cause one or more processors to obtain a first payload key and obtain a path key. The instructions cause the one or more proc...