ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,660, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Network-1 Technologies Inc. (New Canaan, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for "machine-to-machine" (M2M) communications between modules, servers, and an application using public key infrastructure (PKI)" was invented by John A. Nix (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for supporting efficient and secure "Machine-to-Machine" (M2M) communications using a module, a server, and an application. A module can communicate with the server by accessing the Internet, and the module can include a sensor and/or an actuator. The module, server, and application can utilize...