ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,026, issued on June 17, was assigned to ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (Toronto).

"System and method for secure electronic transaction platform" was invented by Edison U. Ortiz (Orlando, Fla.), Arya Pourtabatabaie (Orlando, Fla.), Ambica Pawan Khandavilli (Orlando, Fla.), Margaret Inez Salter (Orlando, Fla.), Jordan Alexander Richards (Orlando, Fla.) and Iustina-Miruna Vintila (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing data within a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) of a processor is provided. The system may include: a trust manager unit for verifying identity of a partner and issuing a communication key to th...