US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Jan. 13 for "Securely changing cryptographic strength during reconfiguration" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,136, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Securely changing cryptographic strength during reconfiguration" was invented by Johannes Arnoldus Cornelis Bernsen (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method, Configurator and Enrollee devices and a system thereof. The method is one of configuring an Enrollee device for communications in a wireless network, the method be arranged for execution by a Configurator device (9) and an Enrollee device. The Configurator and Enrollee devices may be arranged to communicate using a wireless communication protocol a...