ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,600, issued on July 28, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Shohei Masunaga (Kanagawa, Japan) and Munetake Ebihara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an encryption key creation part that creates an encryption key, a second type key different from the first type key, and a third type key that is different from the first type key and the second type key and is a key multiplied with the second type key to create a combination key stored in an ima...