US Patent Issued to Afero on Sept. 8 for "Apparatus and method for verifying a transaction related to a device with an on-device rewriteable memory" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,141, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Afero Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for verifying a transaction related to a device with an on-device rewriteable memory" was invented by Scott Bartlett (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and machine-readable medium are described for verifying a transaction related to a device with an on-device rewriteable memory. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: during a purchase transaction to purchase a device at a point of sale (POS) system, reading a certificate stored on a rewriteable tag integral to the device; generating a signature over...