ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,398, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Techologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Remote attestation method and apparatus" was invented by Liang Xia (Shenzhen, China), Wei Pan (Nanjing, China), Yulin Shi (Nanjing, China) and Jianxiong Wei (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a remote attestation method and an apparatus. The method specifically includes: A first network device receives encrypted information and first measurement information of a second network device through the second network device, where the encrypted information is information obtained by encrypting second measurement information...