ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,978, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Auditable master secrets and key vault" was invented by Nicolas Thaddee Courtois (Mougins, France), Jerome Perrine (Romanel sur Morges, Switzerland) and Denis Pochuev (Orinda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for generating cryptographic keys. For instance, a process may include generating a plurality of master keys based on a plurality of generated random numbers, a second number, and a nonce number; storing a master key, of the plurality of master keys, along with a generated random number of the plurality of generated rando...