US Patent Issued to ATOFIA on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for data encryption, decryption, and authentication" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,400, issued on Sept. 16, 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 encrypting data may include (1) generating a pair of integer values; (2) evaluating at least one property of the pair of values; (3) applying selection logic to the pair of values to accept or reject the pair based on predefined criteria; and (4) determining the pair of values is accept...