US Patent Issued on July 8 for "Secure distribution of cryptographic keys and policy attributes based on geographic trusted location" (Virginia, Oregon, Tennessee, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,867, issued on July 8.

"Secure distribution of cryptographic keys and policy attributes based on geographic trusted location" was invented by Kapildeep Singh Bakshi (Herndon, Va.), Craig Thomas Hill (Sterling, Va.), Raymond Allan Blair (Keizer, Ore.), Michael Alan Kowal (Summit, N.J.), Steven M. Carter (College Grove, Tenn.) and Stephen Michael Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for ensuring that geographic location specific security policies are enforce for an agent or agent device. An Agent service of an agent device accesses an Agent Authentication Service for a key to initiate one or more functions of th...