ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,399, issued on June 10, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Sensor data authentication" was invented by James P. Van Huis (Des Plaines, Ill.), Andrew J. Pekarske (Mundelein, Ill.) and Michael T. Cranston (Carpentersville, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may transmit, to an authentication server, a certificate signing request (CSR) based on a private key stored on a data logger, wherein the data logger is integrated with a sensor within the device. The device may receive, via the data logger and from the authentication server, a signed device certificate based on the CS...