US Patent Issued to Bank of America on June 17 for "Secure authentication and interoperability model for machine to machine ("M2M") communication" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,261, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Secure authentication and interoperability model for machine to machine ("M2M") communication" was invented by Srinivasan Selvaraj (Tamil Nadu, India) and Ananda Raj (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network of nodes supporting machine to machine ("M2M") communication within the network is provided. Each of a plurality of nodes within the networks may be in an inactive communication state prior to authentication. The authentication may be performed by a remote central node ("RCN"). The RCN may be configured to control authentication an...