ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,390, issued on June 17, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Anti-cloning of device cryptographic keys for counterfeit prevention" was invented by Xin Qiu (San Diego), Oscar Jiang (West Covina, Calif.), Alexander Medvinsky (San Diego), Jason Pasion (San Diego), Rafie Shamsaasef (San Diego) and Ting Yao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus, and system for providing device credentials to a plurality of devices is disclosed. The system comprises a credential builder, for generating the credentials or procuring the credentials from a source external to the credential distribution system; a cr...