US Patent Issued to META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES on May 20 for "Hosted device provisioning protocol with servers and a networked initiator" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,976, issued on May 20, was assigned to META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC.

"Hosted device provisioning protocol with servers and a networked initiator" was invented by John A. Nix (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network can operate a WiFi access point with credentials. An unconfigured device can (i) support a Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP), (ii) record responder bootstrap public and private keys, and (iii) be marked with a tag. The network can record initiator bootstrap public and private keys, as well as derived initiator ephemeral public and private keys. An initiator can (i) operate a DPP application, (ii) read t...