US Patent Issued to Fortanix on April 29 for "Establishing provenance of applications in an offline environment" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,417, issued on April 29, was assigned to Fortanix Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Establishing provenance of applications in an offline environment" was invented by Jethro Gideon Beekman (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Raoul Strackx (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform identifier for a first node may be determined based on hardware characteristics of the first node. The platform identifier may be sent to a certification service via non-network communication. Certificate information associated with the platform identifier may be received from the certification service via non-network communication. A key pair may be gen...