US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 10 for "Salted key refreshment in wireless battery management systems" (Virginia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,573, issued on June 10, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Salted key refreshment in wireless battery management systems" was invented by Archanaa Santhana Krishnan (Blacksburg, Va.), Alexis Justine Burnight (Dallas) and Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for key refreshment in a wireless network system using a salt. The method includes receiving, from each of a plurality of secondary nodes communicably coupled to a primary node, a current session number. The current session numbers are compared to a session number at the primary node to identify a mismatch, and a salt is generated re...