US Patent Issued to Amera IoT on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for secure private key storage on IoT device" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,928, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amera IoT Inc. (Addision, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for secure private key storage on IoT device" was invented by Christopher J. Daly (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed for storing a private key on an IoT device for encrypted communication with an external user device and includes a proximity-based communication interface, encryption circuitry and IoT functional circuitry. The encryption circuitry includes a memory having a dedicated memory location allocated for storage of encryption keys utilized in the encrypting/decrypting operations, an encryption engine f...