ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,538, issued on June 3, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolagget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Attestation of trusted execution environments" was invented by Alexander Maximov (Lund, Sweden), Bernard Smeets (Dalby, Sweden) and Lina Palsson (Genarp, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for attesting a first TEE residing on a first node. A method is performed by a second TEE also residing on the first node. The method comprises obtaining a request from the first TEE to be attested. The method comprises, in response thereto, obtaining a shared key from a third TEE residing on a second node. The method comprise...