US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 28 for "Secure attestation of hardware device" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,632, issued on July 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Secure attestation of hardware device" was invented by Niklas Lindskog (Lund, Sweden) and Hakan Englund (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises a plurality of hardware, HW, modules including a first HW module comprising a Physically Unclonable Function, PUF, the first HW module or the plurality of HW modules being communicated with a requester. The device receives (1006), from the requester, a request to transmit an output to the requester. It activates (1008) the PUF, reads a response from the PUF, and adds the respon...