ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,938, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for utilizing cryptographic co-dependency across multiple roots of trust" was invented by Krutarth Mukesh Gathani (Redmond, Wash.), Sathwik Nunna (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Eric Crahen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are provided for cryptographic co-dependent across multiple roots of trust. A device may comprise two or more co-dependent roots of trust, such as a trusted execution environment (TEE) of a main application processor and a cryptographic subsystem comprising a cryptographic processor. A server...