US Patent Issued to Roper Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Configuration of an ephemeral secure wireless ad-hoc network for programmable devices" (New Mexico, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,560, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Roper Solutions Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Configuration of an ephemeral secure wireless ad-hoc network for programmable devices" was invented by Maeve Garigan (San Marcos, Texas) and Michael Pendley (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ephemeral secure wireless ad hoc network for programmable devices uses a technique for reading an encoded identification value disposed with a housing of the programmable device. A software application uses the read encoded identification value to configure the programmable device for use in the network. When the network is shut down, all network ses...