ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,137, issued on June 16, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Hardware integrity control of an electronic device" was invented by Adam Augustyn (Krzeszowice, Poland), Andrzej Bohdan Kostyk (Wieliczka, Poland) and Krzysztof Grzegorz Fabjanski (Bielsko-Biala, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for providing hardware integrity control of an electronic device (2). The method comprising: triggering (40) each one of a plurality of components (4a-d) of the electronic device to generate of respective partial secret keys (10a-d) forming part of a threshold cryptography scheme (11) associated with a public key ...