US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on June 2 for "Encrypted side-band communications" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,814, issued on June 2, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Encrypted side-band communications" was invented by Osaid Ahmed Shamsi (Spring, Texas), Roger D. Benson (Spring, Texas), Abu Baker (Spring, Texas) and William P. Swaney (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an electronic device includes a port and a controller. The controller compares an encrypted identifier received via a side-band communications channel of the port to a trusted identifier retrieved from a storage device. Responsive to the encrypted identifier being equivalent to the trusted identifier, the controller...