ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,166, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Connectivity framework having session layer security for embedded secure connectivity" was invented by Paolo Trere (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a computing device including one or more processors, multiple peripheral communication devices of different communication protocol types operably connected to the one or more processors, and a memory to store processor-executable instructions of an application layer protocol stack. The processor-executable instructions are adapted such that, when executed by the on...