ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,516, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Anti-cloning architecture for device identity provisioning" was invented by Alexander Medvinsky (San Diego), Xin Qiu (San Diego), Ting Yao (San Diego), Jason Pasion (San Diego), Oscar Jiang (West Covina, Calif.), Rafie Shamsaasef (San Diego) and Tat Keung Chan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus, and system for providing device credentials to a plurality of devices is disclosed. The system comprises a credential builder, for generating the credentials or procuring the credentials from a source external to the credential distrib...