ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,810, issued on July 14, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Radio authentication as root of trust for transport layer security" was invented by Ken Jakobsen (Vaerlose, Denmark) and Kristian Gronkjaer Pedersen (Vaerlose, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converged radio device (MS) is configured to perform communication in an internet protocol (IP) based network and authenticate with a switching and management infrastructure (SwMI) of a second network by using pre-existing radio authentication as a root of trust for an unauthenticated IP session established between the MS and a server associated with the SwMI. T...