US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON, PLLC on Nov. 25 for "Secure handling of hardware activation codes" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,883, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON, PLLC (Stockholm).

"Secure handling of hardware activation codes" was invented by Patricia Togard (Sollentuna, Sweden), Tommy Arngren (Sodra Sunderby, Sweden) and Bernard Smeets (Dalby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for obtaining a HWAC for a baseband node. A method is performed by a network planner node. The method comprises performing mutual authentication between a TEE of the network planner node and a TEE of the baseband node. The method comprises providing, towards the TEE of the baseband node, a request for HWAC calculat...