US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY on Oct. 14 for "Methods and processes to securely update secure elements" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,717, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Methods and processes to securely update secure elements" was invented by Kapil Sachdeva (Round Rock, Texas), Sylvain Jacques Prevost (Austin, Texas) and Philip Hill (Cardiff, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for updating firmware of a secure element. The techniques include operations comprising: receiving, by a gateway device, from a remote source, a firmware file; receiving, by a processing element implemented on the gateway device, ephemeral session specific key material for a first secure element implemented on the...