US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on April 29 for "Parallel secret salt generation and authentication for encrypted communication" (Virginia, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,396, issued on April 29, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Parallel secret salt generation and authentication for encrypted communication" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Henrico, Va.), James Zarakas (Centreville, Va.), Mark C. Dupuis (McLean, Va.) and Srinivasa Chigurupati (Long Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of facilitating encrypted communications between a transmitting system having a unique identifier and a receiving system, a key generation system generates at least one encryption master key for use with the unique identifier and an encryption algorithm to produce a transmitting syste...