US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Feb. 24 for "Hardware identity restoration post-device repair" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,485, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hardware identity restoration post-device repair" was invented by Brian Stuart Perlman (Granite Falls, Wash.), Daniel Chavez Zayas (Seattle), Eric Phuoc Huang (Bellevue, Wash.), Marilyn Lai Sun (Bellevue, Wash.), Hung Minh Dang (Seattle), Juanita Jestina Baptiste (Sacramento, Calif.) and Zakariyah Toyer (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein involve building upon a hardware identity of a device and using it to match and detect hardware changes on the device and to identify potential identity mismatches...