US Patent Issued to Kyndryl on March 24 for "Secure network identification for active scanning device" (Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,950, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Secure network identification for active scanning device" was invented by Cesar Bravo (Heredia, Costa Rica) and David Alonso Campos Batista (Heredia, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of storing a hash of a service set identifier (SSID) of a wireless network via an apparatus, receiving a probe request message transmitted from a network device, wherein the probe request message comprises a hash value, determining that the hash value within the probe request is a valid SSID based on the hash of the SSID of the wirele...