ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,627, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Executing attestation client code by executing a dynamic root of trust for measurement (DRTM) sequence to attest health of a computing device" was invented by Ronald Aigner (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that use attestation client code to attest health of a computing device. The computing device receives the attestation client code and a cryptographic key from an attestation service. The cryptographic key is associated with a TPM of the computing device and is usable only by the attestation clie...