US Patent Issued to ITRON NETWORKED SOLUTIONS on Oct. 14 for "Obtaining secure time over a heterogeneous network" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,220, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ITRON NETWORKED SOLUTIONS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Obtaining secure time over a heterogeneous network" was invented by Kalvinder Pal Singh (Miami, Australia), Zoltan Peter Kiss (Los Altos, Calif.) and Darin Byron Johnson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of securely providing a trusted time to a first device may include receiving at a network interface controller (NIC) a neighbor list comprising a plurality of entries for a corresponding plurality of neighbor devices wherein each of the plurality of entries includes a unique device identity of a time server which the pl...