ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,831, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Device signing model" was invented by Arvind Mukund (San Diego), Phalguni Bumhyavarapu (San Diego) and Arun Menon (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for secure processing. For instance, a process can include generating a model signing key, wherein the device is associated with a device model, and wherein the model signing key is shared by apparatuses of the device model; obtaining a certificate for a device-unique public key of the apparatus; signing the device-unique public key based on the model signing key; and transmitting...