US Patent Issued to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL on Aug. 19 for "Securing computing devices during transit" (Gabonese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,652, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL LLC (Duluth, Ga.).

"Securing computing devices during transit" was invented by Stefano Righi (Lawrenceville, Gabon), Madhan B. Santharam (Cumming, Ga.) and Feng Li (Sugar Hill, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is configured with a hardware root of trust ("HRoT"). The HRoT and a remote registration server exchange public keys while the device is in a trusted environment. The device is then locked by setting a lock status in the HRoT. The device can then be shipped to a recipient. When the device is powered on following transit, the HRoT paus...