US Patent Issued to APPLIED INVENTION on May 5 for "System and method for establishing and maintaining trust for secure communications" (New Hampshire Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,128, issued on May 5, was assigned to APPLIED INVENTION LLC (Burbank, Calif.).

"System and method for establishing and maintaining trust for secure communications" was invented by W. Daniel Hillis (Ridge, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a trust framework that enables secure communication, a configurer establishes an initial set of potential trusted relationships between a client and one or more anchors associated with one or more hosts. Once configured, the client can use a trusted relationship to securely communicate with a host without reliance on trusted third parties."

The patent was filed on June 9, 2022, under Application...