ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,903, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing system" was invented by Keita Hasegawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Kazuma Nozawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Takuya Doumen (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Tomohiro Nakagawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Hiroshi Aono (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Masayuki Terada (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to a request from a first device (100), a management unit (300) transmits a data encryption key to the first device (100) through a secure environment between the management unit (300) and the first device (100) when integrity of a firs...