ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,512, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Secure connection initiation to prevent replay attacks in an encrypted network" was invented by Keith D. Underwood (Spring, Texas) and Robert L. Alverson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for providing a shared token as part of establishing a communication connection with a network ("connection establishment") between a source device and a target device, after a previous communication connection to the network between the source device and the target device is closed or torn down, in helping to pr...