US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Jan. 27 for "System and method for implementing secure communications for internet of things (IoT) devices" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,806, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"System and method for implementing secure communications for internet of things (IoT) devices" was invented by Tom Funk (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing secure communications for IoT devices. In various embodiments, a gateway or computing device might provide connectivity between or amongst two or more Internet of Things ("IoT") capable devices, by establishing an IoT protocol-based, autonomous machine-to-machine communication channel amongst the two or more IoT capable dev...