ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,368, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Beyond Identity Inc. (West Palm Beach, Fla.).
"Key distribution using key duplication policies" was invented by Willard M. Wiseman (Edmond, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments, a method is provided for duplicating a user private key to multiple user devices so that websites and services don't need a separate public key for each user device. A Duplication Service is authorized by the user to cause the creation of the initial user private key in a user device. The Duplication Service associates the key's properties with a set of policies (e.g., using a TPM key template) that allow...