US Patent Issued to NXP on June 3 for "Method for securely provisioning an integrated circuit" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,501, issued on June 3, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method for securely provisioning an integrated circuit" was invented by Fabien Jacques Deboyser (Gratentour, France) and Marc Vauclair (Overijse, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for securely provisioning a plurality of integrated circuits (ICs) manufactured by a first entity for use in a plurality of manufactured product types manufactured by a second entity. Each IC of the plurality of ICs includes a key pair and a unique identifier (UID). The first entity generates a plurality of key pairs that are not related to the plurality of I...