ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,219, issued on April 15, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).

"System, device and method for enabling identification when a security sensitive function has been previously enabled" was invented by Axel Keskikangas (Lund, Sweden) and Martin Nilsson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Upon detecting an event indicating enabling of security sensitive functionality of an electronic device, a value previously unknown to the electronic device is obtained and the current content of the data storage to a new current content of the data storage is updated according to an updating function based on the current content of the data st...