ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,975, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for establishing cryptographic keys shared among three or more devices" was invented by Jeff J. Stapleton (O'Fallon, Mo.), Richard Toohey (Burlington, Vt.) and Peter Bordow (Fountain Hills, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for establishing cryptographic keys shared among three or more devices. An example method includes generating a set of particles and an entangled particle triplet based on the set of particles. The example method further includes transmitt...