ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,322, issued on March 17, was assigned to ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Local device attestation" was invented by Brendan James Moran (Coton, Great Britain), Yogesh Bhalchandra Deshpande (Ashford, Great Britain) and Carlos Garcia-Tobin (Ely, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing local device attestation is provided. The method includes receiving, by a trustable device, an instruction from a user to perform attestation of a user device, creating, by the trustable device, an attestation request comprising a random number whereby attestation evidence is generated and includes the random number, the ...