US Patent Issued to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology on May 19 for "Key management method and related device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,128, issued on May 19, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Key management method and related device" was invented by Weixing Hou (Hangzhou, China), Wei An (Hangzhou, China), Lei Hu (Hangzhou, China) and Chao Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification provides a key management method and a related device, which are applied to security hardware. The method includes: preventing, in response to a start instruction for the electronic device, the CPU from being started, and encrypting a second key corresponding to the security hardware by using the stored first key...