US Patent Issued to Raytheon on May 27 for "High assurance virtual encryptor system" (California, Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,763, issued on May 27, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"High assurance virtual encryptor system" was invented by Michael M. Furusawa (Chino Hills, Calif.), Susan N. Gottschlich (Marlborough, Mass.) and Torsten A. Staab (Bristow, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments regard secure virtual encryptor provisioning. A method can include deriving, by a key management system (KMS), virtual encryptor (VE) token data that associates a VE with a user token, signing, by the KMS, a VE executable file, verifying the signature, by a system root of trust (RoT) of a virtual encryptor system (VES), the VE, responsive to verify...