ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,253, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Secure onboarding of a component in a network" was invented by Florian Kohnhaeuser (Riedstadt, Germany), Roland Braun (Niederkassel Lulsdorf, Germany), Rhaban Hark (Griesheim, Germany) and Pablo Rodriguez (Birkenau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a secure onboarding of a component from at least one first host device into a second host device includes verifying the integrity, authenticity and/or execution environment of the first host device by an orchestrator; providing a trusted root certificate to the second host device by t...