ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,751, issued on Nov. 25.

"Provisioning control apparatus and method for provisioning electronic devices" was invented by Tim Woodruff (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Peter Dunne (Huntingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A provisioning control apparatus is arranged to be coupled to a provisioning equipment server electrically connectable with at least one electronic device for provisioning the electronic device with security sensitive provisioning data. The electronic device includes a processor, a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory. The provisioning control apparatus has a communication interface configured to se...