ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,424, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Systems and methods for assigning a cryptographic identity to node-based systems" was invented by Kenneth Geer (Aurburn, Calif.), Shiva R. Dasari (Houston), Christopher Hillier (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Thomas Laffey (Roseville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for assigning an identifier to a node-based system. For example, systems and methods may: discover the plurality of nodes; determine a node of the plurality of nodes to be a controller node: authenticate, at a managem...