ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,823, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cryptography Research Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Application authentication and data encryption without stored pre-shared keys" was invented by Mark E. Marson (Carlsbad, Calif.), Scott Best (Palo Alto, Calif.), Winthrop Wu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Matthew Evan Orzen (San Francisco) and Helena Handschuh (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are technologies for application authentication and/or data encryption without stored pre-shared keys. In one resource controller, a processing device receives an application identifier (ID) from the application. The processing device...