US Patent Issued on Aug. 12 for "Content encryption and in-place decryption using visually encoded ciphertext" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,623, issued on Aug. 12.

"Content encryption and in-place decryption using visually encoded ciphertext" was invented by Andrea G. Forte (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for encrypting and decrypting data using visually encoded ciphertext. The system includes components that cooperatively carry out a method including entering and submitting digital content by a first user (user1); receiving by user1 a visually encoded ciphertext (cyphlens1) containing an encryption of the digital content; verifying the information encrypted in the cyphlens1 image; approving by user1 the cyphlens1 image for further use;...