US Patent Issued to Zededa on March 17 for "Measured boot and attestation for distributed edge devices in air-gapped environments" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,272, issued on March 17, was assigned to Zededa Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Measured boot and attestation for distributed edge devices in air-gapped environments" was invented by Shahriyar Jalayeri (Berlin) and Erik Nordmark (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for establishing trustworthiness of an Edge Computing Device may include predicting a platform configurable register (PCR) value for a system update to generate a predicted PCR value, and then storing the predicted PCR value. The method may further include running the system update by storing updated software on the Edge Computing ...