US Patent Issued to Network-1 Technologies on March 17 for "Configuration systems and methods for secure operation of networked transducers" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,749, issued on March 17, was assigned to Network-1 Technologies Inc. (New Canaan, Conn.).

"Configuration systems and methods for secure operation of networked transducers" was invented by John A. Nix (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device can include an internal secure processing environment (SE) and communicate with a configuration system. The device may utilize a near field communications (NFC) radio. A mobile handset can connect with the SE in the device using NFC. The mobile handset can communicate with the configuration system and receive configuration data and a software package for the device. The SE can deri...