ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,215, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Establishing a personal-public service set identifier connection between a personal device and the internet" was invented by Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Seng Chai Gan (Ashburn, Va.), Charles Kenneth Flack (Marietta, Ga.) and Adam Lee Griffin (Cohasset, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to techniques for secure network connectivity. The techniques including a system having a credential server storing a Personal-Public (PP) Service Set. Identifier (SSID) profile configured according to registration information provided from a personal...