US Patent Issued to Proxense on April 7 for "Personal digital key initialization and registration for secure transactions" (Tennessee, Oregon, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,030, issued on April 7, was assigned to Proxense LLC (Bend, Ore.).

"Personal digital key initialization and registration for secure transactions" was invented by John J. Giobbi (Bend, Ore.), David L. Brown (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Fred S. Hirt (Brookfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method provide efficient, secure, and highly reliable authentication for transaction processing and/or access control applications. A personal digital key (PDK) is programmed using a trusted programming device to initialize and/or register the PDK for use. In one embodiment, the initialization and registration processes are administe...