US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Feb. 11 for "Secure shared key establishment for peer to peer communications" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,115, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Secure shared key establishment for peer to peer communications" was invented by Eric Le Saint (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for secure peer-to-peer communications are described. Devices registered into trusted network may be capable of establishing a shared data encryption key (DEK). In embodiments, each device may be configured to obtain a share of a data encryption key (DEKi) that can be stored locally. The shares may be shares in an M of N Secret Sharing Scheme. This may involve a network that inclu...