ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,016, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to INFOKEYVAULT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"System and method for managing data-file transmission and access right to data files" was invented by Chihhung Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Hsin Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Jung Liang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first user device has first public and private keys and a file encryption key for encrypting the specified file into an encrypted file. A second user device has second public and private keys. A server is in communication with the first and second user devices. The first user device generates temporary public and...