ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,982, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Digital content management through on-die cryptography and remote attestation" was invented by Jason Todd Kaul (Longwood, Fla.), Scott Edwin Hinnershitz (Oviedo, Fla.), David Jose Lopez (Windermere, Fla.), Nhan Huu Mai (Winter Garden, Fla.) and Eric Allen Momper (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for digital rights management including a processor in a platform and a memory device comprising instructions that when executed configure the processor to perform operations. The operations may include determining whether a digital media is l...