ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,481, issued on June 3, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).
"Cloud-based whitebox node locking" was invented by Lex Aaron Anderson (Auckland, New Zealand), Rafie Shamsaasef (San Diego) and Alexander Medvinsky (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure cloud-based node-locking service with built-in attack detection to eliminate fuzzing, cloning and other attacks is disclosed. White-box base files are securely stored on the cloud service and are not vulnerable to accidental leakage. A secure cloud-based dynamic secret encoding service reduces the risk of exposure of unprotected secrets and other sensitive data."...