US Patent Issued to ATOFIA on Feb. 17 for "Methods for data encryption, decryption, and authentication using different policy classes" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,367, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ATOFIA LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Methods for data encryption, decryption, and authentication using different policy classes" 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 satisfying gateway proofs and an integrity check to retrieve decryption value sets for a ciphertext received by a recipient computing device may include performing four gateway proofs of determining whether: (1) a group policy of the ciphertext's header matches a group ...