US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric Industries on Feb. 24 for "Secure communication protocol for communication devices" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,021, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Secure communication protocol for communication devices" was invented by William Afshari (Saint-Paul de Vence, France) and Zakarya Drias (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting secured Ethernet frames on a communication line, the method including the following in a transmitter module: receiving an Ethernet frame comprising payload data from a network layer; retrieving a secure policy, defining the type of security to be applied to the Ethernet frame; producing an initialization vector based on an encryption c...