ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,169, issued on May 5, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Secure attestation of endpoint capability" was invented by Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda (Bangalore, India), Shashank Jain (Bangalore, India), Piyush Pramod Joshi (Aurangabad, India) and Himanshu Srivastava (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a system and method of providing services on a home gateway, including providing a set of security scans for traffic to and from a plurality of devices on a home network; cryptographically verifying that a secured device from the plurality of devices provides for itself internal security services; and ...