US Patent Issued to Barbara Jean Wilk on Sept. 16 for "Authentication using a decentralized and/or hybrid decentralized secure cryptographic key storage method" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,406, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Barbara Jean Wilk (Nesconset, N.Y.).

"Authentication using a decentralized and/or hybrid decentralized secure cryptographic key storage method" was invented by Ryan Joseph Topps (Nesconset, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mutual dependency between two devices is established by creating mutual dependency tokens containing stateful information to be stored on the issuing device and the client device. The tokens can be used for both web/application-level authentication and network-level authentication. Tokens for IP or MAC addresses can be created and stored in a modified route table, allowi...