ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,472, issued on June 3, was assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS (Meudon, France).

"Method for building a predefined secret value" was invented by Milas Fokle Kokou (Gemenos, France) and Guillaume Huysmans (Gemenos, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for building a predefined secret value allocated to a first pod belonging to a node of a system having a second pod. The system includes a first storage area whose access is restricted to the node and a second storage area whose access is restricted to the second pod. The second pod retrieves a first value stored in a third storage area and a second value stored in the second stor...