US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on April 21 for "Hardware-integrated cryptographic signing and encryption for human interface device actions" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,814, issued on April 21, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Hardware-integrated cryptographic signing and encryption for human interface device actions" was invented by Scott Li (Cary, N.C.), Igor Stolbikov (Apex, N.C.), Robert J. Kapinos (Durham, N.C.) and Robert James Norton Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A human interface device (HID) such as a keyboard or a mouse receives data, the HID cryptographically signs the data using a private key of a first user. The HID generates a report using the cryptographically signed data, and transmits the report to a processor for use in authenticating ...