US Patent Issued to ARRIS Enterprises on March 25 for "Method and apparatus for provisioning node-locking confidential data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,931, issued on March 25, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Method and apparatus for provisioning node-locking confidential data" was invented by Tat Keung Chan (San Diego), Alexander Medvinsky (San Diego), Rafie Shamsaasef (San Diego) and Fariba Barez (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for provisioning confidential data such as unique credentials is described. The technique initializes a whitebox cryptographic software module to a particular PKI client to soft-lock whitebox cryptographic operations to the particular PKI client and uniquely encrypting the credentials with a node-locking...