ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,800, issued on Nov. 4.

"System for encrypting and authenticating communications with mutual authentication of the communicators" was invented by Jose Agustin Vega Crespo (Torrelodones, Spain) and Jose Domingo Carrillo Verdun (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for encrypting and authenticating communications with mutual authentication of the communicators is used between two parties who exchange messages supported by a communication network in which the parties are unequivocally identified. The system includes processes supported by respective authentication applications available to each party on a hardware/software devic...