ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,163, issued on May 5, was assigned to NAGRAVISION SARL (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).
"Method and device for controlling access to a resource" was invented by Luis Ruiz (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland) and Didier Hunacek (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling access to a resource in an electronic device including a secure element with a permanent memory having an OTP area. The method includes the following steps performed first when the secure element or the electronic device boots: checking presence of at least one of a secret data and an initialization value in the perma...