ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,129, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Solar Turbines Inc. (San Diego).

"System and method for connecting a customer premises equipment" was invented by Marco Agostani (Morbio Superiore, Switzerland), Dario Abruzzo (Como, Italy), Gabriele Gianatti (Como, Italy) and Simone Colombo (Legnano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for automatically and securely connecting a customer premises equipment (CPE) to a headquarters production environment are disclosed. The method includes automatically transmitting handshake messages from the CPE to a headquarters pre-enrollment server; establishing a generic VPN tunnel bet...