US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 1 for "Secure key exchange using key-associated attributes" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,336, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Secure key exchange using key-associated attributes" was invented by Avdhesh Chhodavdia (Fremont, Calif.), Ling Tony Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Felix Stefan Domke (Lubeck, Germany), Kambiz Rahimi (Kirkland, Wash.) and Jay Scott Fuller (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for secure key exchange. The method comprises receiving a request to certify a key from a communication partner at an interface between an access and tamper resistant circuit block and exposed circuitry. Within the access and tamper resistant circuit b...