ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,597, issued on July 22, was assigned to Arlo Technologies Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Method and system for the secure onboarding of low energy peripheral devices" was invented by Rajinder Singh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for securely onboarding a Bluetooth Low Energy peripheral device or other peripheral device operating over a personal area network (PAN) onto a cloud-based network system. The method includes providing a private-public key pair, wherein the private key is stored on the peripheral device and the public key is stored on a database within the cloud-based network syst...