ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,518, issued on July 8, was assigned to Amera IoT Inc. (Addison, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for simultaneous key generation on device and server for secure communication" was invented by Christopher J. Daly (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure communication system is disclosed for communication between first and second party devices. An input interface is provided for receiving from an external host a unique host factor in addition to a user input interface for receiving from a user a unique PIN for a user and a selection input for selecting one of the plurality of stored entropy stores as a user selected entropy store A ...