ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,167, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method of updating device certificate and device for driving the method" was invented by Younsung Chu (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include processing circuitry configured to, generate a device identifier associated with the device, and generate a unique endorsement identity (ID) associated with the device identifier, a first layer sub-circuit configured to, receive the device identifier, and generate a first certificate and a second certificate based on the device identifier and the unique endorsement ID...