US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 1 for "Secure key exchange" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,339, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Secure key exchange" was invented by Thomas P. Mensch (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Elad Efrat (San Jose, Calif.), David Tamagno (Livermore, Calif.), Armaiti Ardeshiricham (San Diego), Wade Benson (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yannick L Sierra (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to cryptographic key exchanges. In some embodiments, a first device belonging to a first device group receives a request to perform a key exchange to establish a shared secret with a second device belonging to a second device group. The first device verifies ...