ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,405, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HYPERSTONE GmbH (Germany).

"Method and system for error correction coding based on generalized concatenated codes with restricted error values for code-based cryptography" was invented by Juergen Freudenberger (Radolfzell, Germany), Johann-Philipp Thiers (Constance, Germany) and Jens Spinner (Constance, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to error correction coding based on generalized concatenated codes with restricted error values for code-based cryptography. The error correction encoding comprises encoding the information according to a McEliece cryptosystem...