ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,362, issued on April 1.

"Providing access to data in a secure communication" was invented by Raj Raman (San Jose, Calif.) and Aleksandr Dubrovsky (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to preventing computer data from being usurped and exploited by individuals or organizations with nefarious intent. Methods and systems consistent with the present disclosure may store keys and keying data for each of a plurality of connections in separate memory locations. These memory locations may store data that maps a virtual address to a physical memory address associated with storing information rela...