ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,421, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Embedded system support for secure time-aware authentication, acting and sensing devices" was invented by Jan GrieBbach (Hamburg, Germany), Ahmad Al Houry (Hamburg, Germany), Markus Hinkelmann (Halstenbek, Germany) and Nicolas Harmen Lehment (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations relate to controller in a system, including: a device connected to a network; and a secure sub-system connected to the device via a first wired connection, the secure sub-system configured to: establish a trusted channel with a user certificate authority (CA) ...