US Patent Issued to CERULEANT SYSTEMS on July 29 for "Data encryption and decryption using object-based screens and logic blocks" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,308, issued on July 29, was assigned to CERULEANT SYSTEMS LLC (Crystal, Minn.).

"Data encryption and decryption using object-based screens and logic blocks" was invented by Jason McNutt (Plymouth, Minn.), Amy J. Witty (Plymouth, Minn.) and Scott Hanson (North Oaks, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of data blocks are encrypted in accordance with an encryption scheme that transforms a data block into an encrypted data block by: performing a bit modification operation on the data block using one or more logic blocks generated for the data block to thereby generate a first intermediate state data block; performing a bit r...