ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,360, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Wire Swiss GmbH (Zug, Switzerland).
"Trust extension in a secure communication framework" was invented by Raphael Robert (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, in a communication framework in which each of a plurality of users has one or more devices associated therewith, and in which the users use at least some of their devices to communicate via a backend system. A first user has a first set of first one or more associated trusted devices, and a second user has a second set of second one or more trusted devices associated therewith. The first user forms a first cr...