ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,893, issued on April 15, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Lightweight security for internet of things messaging" was invented by Junping Zhao (Beijing) and Mohamed Sohail (Sheikh Zayed, Egypt).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform configured to communicate over a network with a plurality of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The processing platform receives at least a first intermediate message from a first gateway of the network, receives one or more additional intermediate messages from each of one or more additional gateways of the network, associates ...