US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on July 21 for "Secure controllers for replaceable print apparatus components" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,915, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Secure controllers for replaceable print apparatus components" was invented by Stephen D. Panshin (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a secure controller for a replaceable print apparatus component, circuitry for association with a replaceable print apparatus component, and a replaceable print apparatus component. The secure controller is to perform secure communication with a host apparatus via a serial data bus. The controller further is to, in response to a first command from the host apparatus, execute a fi...