ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,876, issued on June 24, was assigned to BKey Inc. (Schaumburg, Ill.).
"Cryptographic key management and transfer" was invented by Mark D. Hetherington (Crystal Lake, Ill.), Jorn Lyseggen (London), Edgardo M. Cruz-Zeno (Round Lake, Ill.), Nai Sum Wong (Palatine, Ill.) and Ming Dai (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed for a method that may comprise: identifying an owner key seed; identifying a receiver key seed; determining a delta between the owner key seed and the receiver key seed; and storing the delta with a trusted third party in a manner that is inaccessible by a receiver. The delta may be ...