US Patent Issued to JumpCloud on Nov. 4 for "Obtaining a session using a device user key" (Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,798, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to JumpCloud Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Obtaining a session using a device user key" was invented by Joel Rennich (West Lakeland, Minn.), Matthew Slocum (Broomfield, Colo.) and Charles Pinkerton III (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for resource management are described. A trust anchor for a device may be obtained. A trust anchor for a user may be obtained. A public key of the device that corresponds to a private key stored in a cryptographic component internal to the device may be generated. The public key of the device may be registered, with a service operated by a resourc...