US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Feb. 24 for "Generation of cryptographic keys" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,415, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Generation of cryptographic keys" was invented by Niklas Lindskog (Lund, Sweden) and Hakan Englund (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for generating a cryptographic key for a user. The method is performed by a cryptographic key generator device. The method comprises authenticating the user using biometrics data read from the user using a biometrics reader. The method comprises obtaining, only when having authenticated the user, a PUF response from a PUF entity by providing a challenge based on biometrics...