US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Encrypting data exchanged between components in a link layer with automatic locking between the transmitting component and the receiving component" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,044, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Encrypting data exchanged between components in a link layer with automatic locking between the transmitting component and the receiving component" was invented by Rajat Rao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encrypting frames transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver includes transmitting unencrypted training frames of a set from the transmitter to the receiver, with each training frame scrambled prior to transmission on an output of a counter of the transmitter and a training frame, where each scrambled tra...