ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,950, issued on March 25.

"Implementing enhanced computer security standard for secure cryptographic key storage using a software-based keystore" was invented by Bidan Sinha (Milpitas, Calif.), Kavitha Chandramohan (Ontario, Canada), Helen Chen (San Mateo, Calif.), Karthik Bhat (Saratoga, Calif.), Fei Chen (San Francisco), Aakash Mehta (San Jose, Calif.) and Thanh-Ha Nguyen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device that is not originally compliant with a particular security standard (e.g., FIPS) is brought into compliance through the addition of a standard-compliant software-based cryptographic library. In order t...