ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,910, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Information processing device and key management device" was invented by Nobuyoshi Morita (Tokyo), Mikio Kataoka (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Fujii (Tokyo) and Masashi Yano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an information processing device and a key management device capable of safely writing key information even in a manufacturing environment other than a manufacturing environment of its own company. An information processing device 1 that generates and manages a key includes a storage unit 100 that stores a public key received ...