ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,162, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to V-Key Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Secure module and method for app-to-app mutual trust through app-based identity" was invented by Chiang Kai Er (Singapore) and Hoang Vinh Tran (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses a module and method for establishing application-to-application (app-to-app) mutual trust so that exchange of information and data between applications takes place in a secure manner. This document discloses a secure module that comprises an identification and trusted-storage modules. The identification module is configured to establish a cryptog...