ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,527, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to PERINET GMBH (Berlin).

"Communication method for IOT nodes or IOT devices in a local network" was invented by Karsten Walther (Konigs Wusterhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for communication of IoT nodes in a local network, which is connected to the Internet solely via a computer. The local network has an Ethernet network or a single pair Ethernet network. The IoT node is designed display-free and operating-element-free and has a first interface for communication with other IoT nodes in the local network. Each IoT node has a first public key and a first privat...