ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,215, issued on March 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Techniques for device to device authentication" was invented by Patrick Wetterwald (Mouans Sartoux, France), Jonas Zaddach (Antibes, France), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France) and Eric Levy-Abegnoli (Valbonne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for device to device authentication. For instance, a first device may detect a second device, such as when a user physically attaches the second device to the first device or when the second device wireless communicates with the first device. A component of the...