ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,827, issued on March 31, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Pairing methods in zero-trust networks" was invented by Igor Stolbikov (Apex, N.C.), Sergei Rodionov (Plano, Texas), Rod D Waltermann (Rougemont, N.C.) and Scott Li (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communications in a network can include performing a pairing between a first device and a second device in the network. The method can include deriving a port knocking sequence from identification information of the pairing. The method can include providing port knocking according to the port knocking sequence. The method can include...