US Patent Issued to ITRON on July 15 for "Encryption key management among nodes in mesh networks" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,527, issued on July 15, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Encryption key management among nodes in mesh networks" was invented by Tommi Petteri Parkkila (Cary, N.C.), Dathathreya Krishnabhat (Bengaluru, India) and Matthew Rockey (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques for managing encryption keys at nodes in a mesh network. In various embodiments, a method includes receiving, by a first node in a network, a first message from a second node; determining, by the first node, that a first key usable by the first node to decrypt the first message is outdated ba...