US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 8 for "Pairwise key establishment between two measurement states" (American, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,871, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Pairwise key establishment between two measurement states" was invented by Joona Verneri Kannisto (Salo, Finland) and Aseem Brahma (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for key establishment. For instance, a process can, during a first cryptographic key derivation, store a first trusted measurement value of a first entity in a first storage location, store an expected measurement value of a second entity in a second storage location, and generate a first instance of a cryptographic key using the first trusted measurement value, ...