ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,989, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Xage Security Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Remote cryptoprocessor-based authentication" was invented by Ganesh Jampani (Gilroy, Calif.), Ray Qiu (Austin, Texas), Akshyan Anandakrishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Benjamin Paul (Palo Alto, Calif.), Harry Ku (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kunaal Sundara (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes using one or more first computing devices that are logically located within a network of a computing environment, the method comprising receiving, by the first computing device, from a second computing devi...