US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on June 16 for "Component authentication method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,280, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Component authentication method and apparatus" was invented by Lingling Wu (Shenzhen, China), Xiaochuan Li (Chengdu, China), Chao Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Hong Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component authentication method includes, after a computer is powered on, a baseboard management controller (BMC) in the computer sends an authentication request to one component in the computer, to initiate access authentication on the component. The component sends an access request to the BMC, where the access request carries an a...