ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,665, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Tangem AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for transferring secret data via an untrusted intermediary device" was invented by Andrey Lazutkin (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) and Denis Volokitin (Yerevan, Armenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for transmitting secret information to a trusted device via an untrusted intermediary device, the method comprising: establishing, by a primary authentication device, a connection with a secondary authentication device via an untrusted intermediary device; receiving, from the secondary authentication dev...