US Patent Issued to DrFirst.com on Sept. 9 for "Self-consistent structures for secure transmission and temporary storage of sensitive data" (Maryland, Florida, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,976, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DrFirst.com Inc. (Rockville, Md.).

"Self-consistent structures for secure transmission and temporary storage of sensitive data" was invented by Zilong Tang (Rockville, Md.), James F. Chen (Naples, Fla.) and Chen Qian (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations provide self-consistent, temporary, secure storage of information. An example system includes short-term memory storing a plurality of key records and a cache storing a plurality of data records. The key records and data records are locatable using participant identifiers. Each key record includes a nonce and each data re...