ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,640, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Yukiko Watanabe (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
"IC chip with auto-identification" was invented by Hiroshi Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication (or identification) of an electronic apparatus is performed using a response to be generated from a specific random number, which is specific to an IC chip included in the electronic apparatus, and a challenge, which is input to the electronic apparatus. A physical firewall, which is composed of the authenticated electronic apparatuses, is configured. Furthermore, a pair of a secret and public keys are generated using the said...