US Patent Issued on May 13 for "End-to-end secure communications with history" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,703, issued on May 13.

"End-to-end secure communications with history" was invented by Richard L. Barnes (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an illustrative method herein may comprise: determining, by a device of a communication session, that a new epoch has occurred within the communication session, wherein the communication session has one or more member devices; generating, by the device and in response to the new epoch, a new key encryption key and a key bundle comprising one or more keys to decrypt content of the communication session from one or more previous epochs of the communication session; en...