ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,155, issued on July 28, was assigned to WiBu-Systems AG (Karlsruhe, Germany).
"Method and secure element for detecting a trusted electronic assembly" was invented by Ralf Fust (Durmersheim, Germany), Oliver Winzenried (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Wolfgang Neifer (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and a secure element for detecting the trustworthiness of an electronic assembly (100). The secure element (200) comprises a control unit (210), a record storage device (230), and a secure storage device (220); the record storage device (230) comprises a target state value (235) of the assembly (...