US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric USA on Sept. 8 for "Temporary enablement of functionality of a secure device" (North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,379, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Boston).

"Temporary enablement of functionality of a secure device" was invented by Kevin M. Jefferies (Raleigh, N.C.), Gregory Harrison (Andover, Mass.) and Yvain Achino (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for temporarily enabling functionality of a secure device. The method includes storing public keys for respective trusted devices of at least one trusted device, storing device-unique data that is unique for the secure device, generating a unique hashed-based message authentication code (HMAC) key, computing, based on the HMAC key ...