ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,131, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BANKS AND ACQUIRERS INTERNATIONAL HOLDING (France).

"Device, method and program for secure communication between white boxes" was invented by Nicolas Chrupalla (Andresy, France), Nabil Hamzi (Cugy Vd, Switzerland) and Remi Geraud (Valence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryptographic data processing method for implementing a cryptographic function, implemented within an electronic data processing device including a processor, a memory and a set of cryptographic processing modules, the method including the following steps implemented by a current cryptographic processing module of the s...