ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,939, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for demonstrating identity to a trusted platform module" was invented by Jordan Thomas Hand (Woodinville, Wash.), Christopher Edward Fenner (Kirkland, Wash.), Jeffrey Thomas Andersen (Kirkland, Wash.) and Vidya Bharat Satyamsetti (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for demonstrating the identity of a central processing unit (CPU) to a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) with improved security against, for example, interposers on a communications bus. In particular, according to an a...