ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,740, issued on July 8, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Non-interfering access layer end-to-end encryption for IOT devices over a data communication network" was invented by Kaashif Hassan Nawaz (England, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Once a new session of data packets is detected, whether to proxy encrypt the data packets, on behalf of a specific headless endpoint device from the plurality of headless endpoint devices for a session, is determined based on analysis of payload data of a data packet from a session. Responsive to a determination to proxy encrypt data packets, encryption attributes are se...