US Patent Issued to Arm IP on May 13 for "Trusted device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,096, issued on May 13, was assigned to Arm IP Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Trusted device" was invented by Krisztian Flautner (Cambridge, Great Britain), Hugo John Martin Vincent (Cambridge, Great Britain), Amyas Edward Wykes Phillips (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Robert George Taylor (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trusted device, such as a wristwatch, is provided with authentication circuitry, used to perform an authentication operation to switch the trusted device into an authenticated state. Retention monitoring circuitry monitors the physical possession of the trusted device by the user following...