Atense Assigned Patent

Atense, Inc., Plano, TX, has been assigned a patent (11,070,372) 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 a random access memory, the latter of which can receive and store the sensitive data from the non-transitory computer storage medium. 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 December 7, 2020 (17/113,859).