US Patent Issued to NXP on March 3 for "Method for post-quantum secure in-the-field trust provisioning" (Dutch, Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,962, issued on March 3, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method for post-quantum secure in-the-field trust provisioning" was invented by Christine van Vredendaal (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Bjorn Fay (Brande-Hornerkirchen, Germany) and Mario Lamberger (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for provisioning a plurality of IC devices, the method including: providing, by a first entity, the plurality of IC devices; storing, by the first entity, in one of the plurality of IC devices used as a provisioning device, one or more keys, and a public key, wherein the one or more keys include a reprovisioning key...