ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,244, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Home gateway monitoring for vulnerable home internet of things devices" was invented by Yaron Koral (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Shraboni Jana (Danville, Calif.) and Kaustubh Joshi (Short Hills, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to home gateway monitoring for vulnerable home Internet of Things ("IoT") devices. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a home gateway can scan a home network address space of a home network for an IoT device. The home gateway can perform a vulnerability test on the ...