ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,584, issued on July 22.
"Time-based encryption key derivation" was invented by Tristan F. Schaap (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed securely communicating traffic over a network. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first circuit having a local clock configured to maintain a local time value. The first circuit is configured to determine a synchronized time value based on the local time value, the synchronized time value being an expected time value of a reference clock. The first circuit is further configured to generate a first encryption key by calculating a key derivation function based ...