ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,755, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intertrust Technologies Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).
"Key generation systems and methods" was invented by Jarl Nilsson (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to, among other things, key generation systems and methods. Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide for generation of cryptographic keys based on one or more defined key generation rules. Key generation consistent with various aspects of the disclosed embodiments may increase the difficultly and/or cost of producing public keys and, by extension, discourage the generation of fake keys used in connect...