ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,538, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"IoT bootstrapping and certificate management using zero-touch deployment (ZTD) services" was invented by Manoj Kumar Kushwaha (Karnataka, India), Scott Taft Potter (Stratford, Conn.), David Scott McCowan (Cary, N.C.) and Shailendra Bhargava (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to techniques for bootstrapping and certificate management of Internet of Things (IoT) devices using a zero-touch deployment (ZTD) service. In one aspect, a method of managing Internet of Thing (IoT) devices includes receiving, at a...