US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 25 for "Authentication of networked devices having low computational capacity" (Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,835, issued on March 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Authentication of networked devices having low computational capacity" was invented by Kumaran Vijayasankar (Allen, Texas), Oliver Shih (Pittsburgh), Arvind K. Raghu (Dallas), Ramanuja Vedantham (Allen, Texas) and Xiaolin Lu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication of a networked device with limited computational resources for secure communications over a network. Authentication of the device begins with the supplicant node transmitting a signed digital certificate with its authentication credentials to a proxy node. Upon verifying the cert...