US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 2 for "Securing a computing device accessory" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,512, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Securing a computing device accessory" was invented by Mahima Choudhary (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Ankur Choudhary (Redmond, Wash.) and Chong He (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online service may use a computing system to authenticate a remote accessory device by establishing an encrypted communication channel with the remote accessory device, the remote accessory device being connected to a host device. Then, using the encrypted communication channel, obtain a device certificate possessed by the remote accessory device. T...