ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,964, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing system and information processing method" was invented by Kenji Kuramae (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masao Akimoto (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes: an information terminal; a first management device; and a control device. The information terminal receives a server certificate from the first management device. The control device includes: a storage in which a root certificate including a second public key is stored; a communicator that receives the server ...