ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,576, issued on July 8, was assigned to Eclypses Inc. (Marco Island, Fla.).

"System and method for securely transferring data using encryption keys" was invented by Robert E. Nelson (Franktown, Colo.) and Aron J. Seader (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one example, a system includes a second computing device that receives encrypted data from a first computing device. The encrypted data is encrypted based on a first encryption key. Also, the data is obfuscated prior to encryption. The second computing device generates a second encryption key that matches the first encryption key, decrypts the encrypte...