Ford Global Technologies Assigned Patent

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI, has been assigned a patent (11,290,271) developed by Hassani, Ali, Ann Arbor, MI, Hanson, Ryan Edwin, Livonia, MI, King, Daniel M., Northville, MI, Golgiri, Hamid M., Livonia, MI, and Smyth, Cameron, Wyandotte, MI, for a “secure storage enhancements for authentication systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A secured device has a secure storage area and is configured to communicate with an authentication manager of a key server. A salt and a key identifier of a key are received to the secured device from the key server. Information corresponding to the key identifier is embedded into the salt to create a combined identifier-salt value. The combined identifier-salt value is stored in the secure storage area. The combined identifier-salt value is utilized as additional input to a hash function along with a password. The key is identified using the information corresponding to the key identifier embedded into the salt.”

The patent application was filed on February 27, 2020 (16/803,462).