US Patent Issued to Afero on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus and method for cryptographically securing unpowered or non-electronic IoT devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,747, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Afero Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for cryptographically securing unpowered or non-electronic IoT devices" was invented by Scott Bartlett (Oakland, Calif.), Joe Britt (Los Altos, Calif.), Cora Middleton (Sausalito, Calif.), Nickolas Heckman (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Benjamin K. Gibbs (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Lucas Finkelstein (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for cryptographically securing a product. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: generating a first signature over a key to add an authenticator device to a chain of trust; ge...