ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,355, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Secure device onboarding techniques" was invented by Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.), Mats Gustav Agerstam (Portland, Ore.), Nathan Heldt-Sheller (Portland, Ore.) and Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for establishing network connectivity and onboarding for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and trusted platforms, including in Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) specification device deployments, are discussed. In an example, a zero touch owner transfer method includes operations of: receiving ...