ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,529, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Secure energy harvest system" was invented by Vinay Saini (Bengaluru, India), Ram Mohan Ravindranath (Bangalore, India), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system and method for secure energy harvesting. An access point includes a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor receives, from a wireless device, a token and an identifier for a first access point that generated the token and requests the first access poin...