ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,524, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Mitigation of a denial of service attack in a device provisioning protocol (DPP) network" was invented by Amogh Guruprasad Deshmukh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Daniel N. Harkins (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhijun Ren (Beijing) and Guangning Qin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for mitigating denial-of-service attacks that can disrupt onboarding internet-of-things (IoT) devices onto a network and ensuring legitimate IoT devices are onboarded. Example implementations include receiving, at an access point (AP...