ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,763, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for ensuring ephemerality of encryption keys" was invented by Nishant Raj (Bhagalpur, India), Ananda Kishore Parasa (Hyderabad, India), Bedatrayee Ghosh (Raiganj, India), Santosh Pavan Kumar Dronamraju (Hyderabad, India) and Neeraj Kumar Soni (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for updating ephemeral keys on quick boot of a computing device, including determining, by a processor of the computing device, that a power-on transition is from a quick boot and generating, in a secure portion of the processor, a new ephemeral key f...