US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 11 for "Methods and apparatus for operating a constrained device" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,733, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatus for operating a constrained device" was invented by Orazio Toscano (Genoa, Italy) and Liuba Poli (Piombino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (600) for operating a constrained device is disclosed, the constrained device being operable to communicate with an entity over a network. The method, performed by the constrained device, comprises generating a message for transmission to the entity (602), encrypting the generated message by applying a Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS) to the generated message (604),...