ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,219, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating a secure key exchange authentication request 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: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for generating a secure key exchange (SKE) Authentication Request using a Security Parameter Index (SPI) Transform to provide secure data transfer in a computing environment. A disclosed method comprises rece...