ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,295, issued on July 22, was assigned to SECURE THINGZ LTD. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Electronic chip and a method for provisioning such an electronic chip" was invented by Tim Woodruff (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic chip for assembly into electronic equipment includes a communication interface configured to receive a plurality of blocks of provisioning data from a provisioning apparatus in encrypted form. The electronic chip has a non-volatile memory configured to store the plurality of blocks of provisioning data. The electronic chip further includes a processing circuitry configured to per...