Atense Assigned Patent

Atense, Inc., Plano, TX, has been assigned a patent (10,892,895) developed by Almeida, John, Plano, TX, for “storing and using multipurpose secret data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method improves operational performance of a computer by enhancing digital security with an added electronic circuit. The electronic circuit stores sensitive data in an un-erasable state such that the sensitive data may not be altered. The electronic circuit limits transfer of the sensitive data only once after each power-up or after each reset of the computer. The electronic circuit prevents access to the sensitive data by an authorized program. The electronic circuit utilizes its own storage medium and random access memory, the latter of which can receive and store the sensitive data. The method uses a software driver and a copy-of-copy of first security key obtained from the sensitive data stored on the electronic circuit. The software driver installs a software module on the computer using the copy-of-copy of first security key to encrypt each installed file.”

The patent application was filed on August 22, 2019 (16/767,580).