ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,709, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Key management and protection in secure execution environments" was invented by Nicolas Thaddee Courtois (Mougins, France) and Frederic Amiel (Nice, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for information protection. For example, a process may include obtaining a security information asset at a randomizing engine; performing a first randomization of the security information asset to obtain a randomized security information asset; providing the randomized security information asset to a secure storage device; obtaining the rando...