ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,618, issued on March 11, was assigned to Zingdoc Inc. (New York).
"Encrypted human interface keyboard" was invented by Clifford Fernandez (New York), Kurt Grutzmacher (New York) and Derrick Harry Lewis (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for sending and receiving communications securely between a human interface keyboard and a computer terminal are described. In some embodiments, the keyboard includes a human interface display and a processor to encrypt keystrokes entered by a user. Synchronization between the keyboard and the computer terminal is maintained by the devices, by encrypting and decrypting a sig...