ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,038, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Phoenix Technologies EMEA Ltd. (Dublin).

"Attestation process and system for wireless security" was invented by James Leonard Mortensen (Lynnwood, Wash.), Boaz Kahana (Portland, Ore.), Kenneth Charles Taylor (Kirkland, Wash.) and Sanket C. Pingle (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing a secured challenge and response for wireless/mobile/IOT network security that provides a secure provisioning of mobile equipment, a challenging of the mobile equipment and the verification of the mobile equipment by a network node to verify that mobile equipment is an auth...