US Patent Issued to ATOFIA on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for data encryption, decryption, and authentication" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,796, issued on Nov. 4, 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 retrieving, preparing, and embedding encryption value sets for decrypting data may include (1) retrieving files from data storage; (2) generating instructions for decrypting ciphertext based on the files; (3) generating a copy of each encryption value set; (4) designating each copy as a dec...