US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential on Oct. 7 for "Establishment of secure Bluetooth connection to internet of things devices, such as electronic locks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,594, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential Inc. (New Haven, Conn.).

"Establishment of secure Bluetooth connection to internet of things devices, such as electronic locks" was invented by Derek Imanuel (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for managing secure connection between a mobile device and an Internet of things device, such as an electronic lock. In some instances, a mutual authentication process is performed, and public keys are exchanged. Once keys are exchanged, subsequent communication between the devices may be encrypted using a shared key generated usi...