ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,797, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating a secure key exchange authentication response using a security parameter index transform" was invented by Richard Mark Sczepczenski (Hyde Park, N.Y.), Daniel Hughes (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Alol Antony Crasta (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for generating an SKE Authentication Response using a Security Parameter Index (SPI) Transform to provide secure data transfer in a computing environment. A disclosed method comprises receiving, from an initiator channel on a...