US Patent Issued to Omnissa on Sept. 9 for "Ciphers to protect keystrokes" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,407, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Ciphers to protect keystrokes" was invented by Xiaoyu Kong (Beijing), Zhiyuan Wang (Beijing), Yiqun Yun (Beijing), Zhanglin Zhou (Beijing) and Yang Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encrypting keystroke data on a computing device involves receiving a key identifier (ID) from a keyboard device, creating a keystroke cipher segment comprising a primary authentication code and the key ID, and encrypting the keystroke cipher segment to generate an encrypted keystroke cipher segment. The keystroke cipher segment is included within a keystroke message an...