ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,620, issued on May 27, was assigned to aapoon Inc. (Houston).

"Secure device communication using multi-key encapsulation" was invented by Srinivasa Katta (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for establishing secure communication between a first device and a second device. The method includes generating ephemeral keys at the first device, encapsulating a public key of the second device to generate a first cipher key and a first shared secret key, transmitting a first message to the second device comprising the ephemeral public key and the first cipher key, receiving a second message from the second device containing ...