US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Sept. 16 for "Binding a virtual security processor to a physical security processor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,423, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Binding a virtual security processor to a physical security processor" was invented by Thomas M. Laffey (Roseville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a virtual manager in an electronic device generates a seed based on a first key stored in a physical security processor of the electronic device. The virtual manager initializes a virtual security processor by providing the seed to the virtual security processor. The electronic device creates, in the virtual security processor, a virtual security processor key base...