British Telecommunications Assigned Patent

British Telecommunications Public Ltd. Company, London, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (11,451,387) developed by Daniel, Joshua, and Sajjad, Ali, London, Great Britain, for “cryptographic key generation and storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer implemented method of generating cryptographic keys for a plurality of hardware security modules, HSMs, the method including generating a plurality of cryptographic keys for use by the HSMs in providing cryptography functions, wherein the cryptographic keys are generated based on numerical data generated by a hardware random number generator, and storing the generated cryptographic keys in a secure key store, such that a key in the key store utilized by an HSM is flagged as utilized to prevent other HSMs utilizing the same key, so as to provide a rate of generation and storage of the cryptographic keys unconstrained by the resources of any HSM.”

The patent application was filed on May 2, 2019 (17/250,089).