ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,970, issued on Nov. 3.

"Leveraging a trusted party third-party HSM and database to securely share a key" was invented by Lance W. Dover (Fair Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments are related to securely updating a semiconductor device and in particular to a key management system. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising storing a plurality of activation codes, each of the activation codes associated with a respective unique identifier (UID) of semiconductor device; receiving, over a network, a request to generate a new storage root key (SRK), the request including a response code and a reque...