US Patent Issued to Fort Robotics on April 22 for "Method for securely generating and distributing symmetric keys for grouping secure communications" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,275, issued on April 22, was assigned to Fort Robotics Inc. (Philadelphia).

"Method for securely generating and distributing symmetric keys for grouping secure communications" was invented by Guang Wu (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, by a key server: identifying a group of devices; accessing secret values pre-provisioned to devices in the group of devices; accessing prime numbers pre-provisioned to devices in the group of devices; generating a cryptographic key for communication among the group of devices; generating a message based on the secret values, the prime numbers, and the cryptographic key; and ...