ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,842, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CHINA IWNCOMM Co. LTD. (Shaanxi, China).

"Method, apparatus and device for secure data transmission" was invented by Jinfa Guo (Shaanxi, China), Qin Li (Shaanxi, China) and Lulin Fan (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a method, apparatus, and device for secure data transmission. The method comprises: a node 1 incrementally updates an SN1 value, performs first mathematical transformation on the updated SN1 value to calculate an IV1, encrypts a first data packet according to the IV1 and a key, and then sends the encrypted first data packet to a node 2;...