ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,393, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Boston).
"Scrambled address-based security" was invented by Joseph R. Beierschmitt (Marion, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide techniques for generating a security key for use in authenticating a device. Embodiments divide a unique identifier into an ordered plurality of portions, wherein the unique identifier is associated with a first device. A plurality of values is retrieved from an indexable data structure by accessing the indexable data structure using each of the plurality of portions as an index, where the indexable dat...