US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on July 15 for "Detection of unauthorized internet of things devices in a computer network" (Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,136, issued on July 15, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Detection of unauthorized internet of things devices in a computer network" was invented by Daniel Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Zhonglin Liu (Nanjing, China), Patrick Shi (Nanjing, China) and Jeff Jiang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a system and method for detecting an unauthorized Internet of things (IoT) device in a private computer network. Packets of network traffic are collected in the private computer network. An IoT packet is identified from among the collected packets. IoT data is extracted from the IoT packet and encrypted. The encry...