ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,781, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Secure setup for distributed monotonic counter services" was invented by Samira Briongos (Heidelberg, Germany), Claudio Soriente (Heidelberg, Germany), Annika Wilde (Bochum, Germany) and Ghassan Karame (Bochum, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a computer-implemented method for providing a service to a trusted execution environment (TEE). A data item is written by a process running in the TEE to a pre-defined cache location. The data item is monitored to determine whether it is evicted from the pre-defined cache location. A setup procedure...