ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,715, issued on May 13.

"Renewal of one-time keys" was invented by Bruno Sangle-Ferriere (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securing communication within a system includes at least one server and at least two appliances able to communicate with the server and with each other. A pair of appliances communicating together, and having at least one shared one-time encryption key for securing communication between the two, has at least one other shared one-time encryption key supplied by the server following the connection of only one of the two appliances to the server."

The patent was filed on Nov. 24, 2020, under Applica...