ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,556, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Efficient transmission of compressed certificates in a low bandwidth mesh environment" 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: "Various embodiments set forth a method comprising receiving, at a server node from a client node, a client compression dictionary that includes one or more first mappings between one or more first index values and one or more data entries included in a certificate cache of the client node; identifying, in respo...