ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,173, issued on April 22, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Method and apparatus for securing a remote device" was invented by Anbalagan Elumalai (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for security of Internet of things (IoT) devices are discussed. A user of a mobile device, such as a customer of a wireless communication network, may remotely lock an IoT device while concomitantly assigning an ad hoc password to the IoT device that can be subsequently used to unlock the device. Alternatively, an IoT device may self-lock and produce a password in response to detecting its motion. The prod...