US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 15 for "Attestation of a secure guest" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,938, issued on July 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Attestation of a secure guest" was invented by Reinhard Theodor Buendgen (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany) and Jonathan D. Bradbury (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trusted execution environment obtains an attestation request. The attestation request includes at least an attestation key. Based on obtaining the attestation request, one or more integrity measurements are computed, and the computing uses at least the attestation key. The one or more integrity measurements are provided to an entity, and the one or more integrity...