US Patent Issued to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS on Feb. 24 for "System and method for providing secure communication using ephemeral keys with a lifetime associated with a type of data being secured" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,896, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).

"System and method for providing secure communication using ephemeral keys with a lifetime associated with a type of data being secured" was invented by Lawrence Russell Marsala (Fort Worth, Texas), Nina Vajda (Dallas) and Brian North (Chico, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing ephemeral keys for a cryptographic system includes a secure enclave configured to generate one or more ephemeral keys (EKs), where each EK of the one or more EKs has a lifetime associated with the respective EK, and one or more secured devices connected...