US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 2 for "Method and apparatus for attesting physical attacks" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,761, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for attesting physical attacks" was invented by Anmin Fu (Shaanxi, China) and Jingyu Feng (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed for attesting physical attacks. A method may comprise: receiving a heartbeat message from a neighbor device at a periodic interval, wherein the heartbeat message is encrypted with a session key of the neighbor device for a current interval, and comprises a key material for updating the session key of the neighbor device for a next interval; and decrypting the receiv...