ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,670, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Starten Systems Inc. (Andover, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for secure connections and data transfer" was invented by Anil Kumar Bhandari (Andover, Mass.), Armin Buhay Cao (Hudson, N.H.), Ashraf Mansur Dahod (Andover, Mass.), Matthew Hayden Harper (Hollis, N.H.), Vijay Kumar Kathuria (Middleton, Mass.) and Kenneth Edward Virgile (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention solves the problem of lack of consistency in the policy handling of cellular devices and non-cellular devices. Security credentials that are acceptable to the core network are enabled by the invention to be ...