US Patent Issued to Multifactor on March 17 for "System and method for multi-factor key derivation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,738, issued on March 17, was assigned to Multifactor Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"System and method for multi-factor key derivation" was invented by Vivek Chinar Nair (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for multi-factor key derivation includes: a user having a plurality of authentication factors; whereby the plurality of authentication factors are converted into key material using intermediate factor-specific functions, and whereby said key material is then converted into a key using a key derivation function."

The patent was filed on Jan. 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/152,660.

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