US Patent Issued to AKM Cyber on Feb. 10 for "Autonomous key management for data, digital and computative devices and method therefor" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,374, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AKM Cyber Corp. (Arlington, Va.).

"Autonomous key management for data, digital and computative devices and method therefor" was invented by Jon Barton Shields (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The secure data system and communicative method is deployed on first and second edge nodes (the 1st node may be a network manager (NM)). Each edge node has a processor, a data store (with a file), and a secure data enclave. A keyed hash message authentication code (HMAC) is separately run on each node's processor, data store, file, and the HMAC is stored in the respective enclave. Th...