US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 20 for "Supply chain attestation transparency and authorization" (Oregon, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,877, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Supply chain attestation transparency and authorization" was invented by Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.), Rajesh Poornachandran (Portland, Ore.) and Sunil K. Cheruvu (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein includes receiving a first reference integrity manifest (RIM) and a first proto-RIM from a first endorser, the first endorser asserting authority, by the first RIM and the first proto-RIM, to supply first attestation reference values for a computing device; storing the first proto-RIM in a RIM transparency database; notar...