US Patent Issued to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL on July 8 for "Out-of-band (OOB) remote attestation" (Gabonese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,605, issued on July 8, was assigned to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL LLC (Duluth, Ga.).

"Out-of-band (OOB) remote attestation" was invented by Stefano Righi (Lawrenceville, Gabon), Muthukkumaran Ramalingam (Duluth, Ga.), Madhan B. Santharam (Cumming, Ga.) and Paul Rhea (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a baseboard management controller ("BMC") that receives a security token from a management system. The computing system also executes a firmware that collects measurements from components of the computing system. The measurements include data describing the components for use in attestati...