ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,990, issued on Feb. 11.

"Systems and methods for packet spreading data transmission with anonymized endpoints" was invented by Michael T. Jones (Monterey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet-spreading data transmission system with anonymized endpoints facilitates enhanced fortified private communications between a plurality of arbitrary devices via a plurality of communication channels or networks. The data transmission system receives at a source endpoint device a message of arbitrary length. The message includes a destination address associated with a destination endpoint device. Both source endpoint device and the desti...