ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,670, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Unit 410 LLC (San Antonio).

"Key shard verification for key storage devices" was invented by Robert Witoff (San Antonio), Drew Rothstein (San Antonio), Alex Miller (San Antonio) and Grant Slape (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, verification operations are performed. A first device packaged with a second device may store a first key shard and a second key. The first key shard may be a same key shard as a corresponding key shard stored on the second device, where the second key is different from a corresponding key stored on the second device. Additionally, the f...