ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,888, issued on June 24, was assigned to IPAssets Technology Holdings Inc. (Mesa, Ariz.).

"Cold storage cryptographic authentication apparatus and system" was invented by Douglas J. Pepe (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryptographic cold storage apparatus and system. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a cold storage apparatus configured to generate a private key, compute an associated PK/PKY and display the latter on a visual display screen. An associated interface apparatus is configured to retrieve the PK/PKH optically and store it in memory. The interface apparatus is configured to produce ...