US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on May 26 for "Securing communication between a PMU and a PDC" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,938, issued on May 26, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Securing communication between a PMU and a PDC" was invented by Muhammad Suhail Hussain Shaik (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for securing communication between a Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) and a Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC) in accordance with IEEE C37.118.2-2024. The method includes receiving, at the PMU, a command frame requesting an authentication certificate, receiving a configuration frame comprising an X.509 certificate of the PDC, generating a public-private key pair, and...