US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on July 21 for "Hardware specific cryptographic key" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,311, issued on July 21, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Hardware specific cryptographic key" was invented by Deniz Karakoyunlu (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques to generate a cryptographic key specific to a type of hardware are described herein. Software distribution and execution can use cryptographic keys tailored to specific hardware. A secret is generated from a hardware public key. The secret is used to create software public and private keys. The secret is used to protect the data and the public key is distributed with the software for use on a class of hardware to whi...