ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,706, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Platform health verification" was invented by Mateusz Bronk (Gdansk, Poland), Arkadiusz Berent (Pomorskie, Poland) and Piotr Zmijewski (Gdansk, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises issuing a challenge to a target computing device, receiving, from the target computing device, a response to the challenge, the response comprising a self-attestation proof, a root of trust (RoT) certificate, and a set of current attestation measurements, and generating a signal indicative of a security status of the target based upon a determination of whether ...