US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 23 for "Hub-based token generation and endpoint selection for secure channel establishment" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,763, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Hub-based token generation and endpoint selection for secure channel establishment" was invented by Allan Henry Vermeulen (Carvallis, Ore.), Matthew John Campagna (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Colm Gearoid MacCarthaigh (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes are described for establishing and using a secure channel. A shared secret may be used for authentication of session initiation messages as well as for generation of a private/public key pair for the session. A number of ways of agreeing on the shared secret are described and inclu...