US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Feb. 18 for "Method for attestation of an electronic component on a circuit board" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,582, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Method for attestation of an electronic component on a circuit board" was invented by Kenneth William Junk (Marshalltown, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for attestation of electronic components includes operating a system including the components. The components are configured for electronic communication with each other. A first electronic component provides plug-in hardware and/or configurable software. The method includes utilizing a second electronic component to perform attestation upon the first component using asymmetric key c...