ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,604, issued on Dec. 2.
"Method for encrypting data by means of matrix operations" was invented by Jaime Ricardo Gutierrez Salazar (Santiago, Chile) and Jaime Andres Lopez Lisboa (Santiago, Chile).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encrypting data, comprising: the transformation of a base message into an intermediate message by means of successive matrix rearrangement operations; the definition of a numerical set, which is transformed into a new numerical order, also by means of matrix rearrangement operations; the definition of a substitution alphabet; the establishment of a replacement operation, comprising the replacement of...