ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,394, issued on April 29, was assigned to ATOFIA LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for data encryption, decryption, and authentication" was invented by Thurman Richard White (Nashville, Tenn.), Martin Thomas Poe III (Nashville, Tenn.) and Martin Thomas Poe IV (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating, storing, and transmitting encryption value sets may include (1) accessing bit value tables each identified by a bit value and randomly selecting a bit value; (2) generating mixing schemes; (3) generating matrix dimensions for encryption; (4) generating encryption deciders and ...