US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Method and system for distributing keys" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,568, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Ontario, Canada).

"Method and system for distributing keys" was invented by Norman Vernon Douglas Stewart (Markham, Canada), Mihir Shaileshbhai Doctor (Santa Clara, Calif.), Omar Fakhri Ahmed (Markham, Canada), Hemaprabhu Jayanna (Santa Clara, Calif.) and John Traver (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for distributing keys in a key distribution system includes receiving a connection for communication from a first component. A determination is made whether the first component require...