ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,929, issued on July 15, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
"Encryption key management 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, while in a key failure detection time period associated with a first key, detecting, by a node in a mesh network, a decryption failure using the first key; in response to detecting the decryption failure u...