ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,576, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Techniques for peer-to-peer key verification" was invented by Cristina L. Formaini (San Francisco), Bailey E. Basile (Cupertino, Calif.), Erik D. Strahm (Mountain View, Calif.) and Benton C. Case (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first electronic device can establish a communication channel with a second electronic device and receive a second signed log head of an identifier log via the communication channel. The identifier log is managed by a key transparency server and can include public keys of users registered with the server and user identi...