US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Pointer mechanisms for communicating authentication and key management (AKM) and ciphers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,081, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Pointer mechanisms for communicating authentication and key management (AKM) and ciphers" was invented by Sidharth R. Thakur (San Jose, Calif.), Yong Liu (Campbell, Calif.), Jarkko L. Kneckt (Los Gatos, Calif.), Su Khiong Yong (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ahmad Reza Hedayat (Carlsbad, Calif.), Charles F. Dominguez (San Carlos, Calif.), Neelakantan Nurani Krishnan (San Diego), Daniel R. Borges (San Francisco), Jinjing Jiang (Campbell, Calif.), Lochan Verma (Danville, Calif.), Qi Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tianyu Wu (Monterey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Som...