US Patent Issued to Leeward Digital on May 27 for "System and methods for a symmetric encryption cipher with steganographically embedded access controls" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,745, issued on May 27, was assigned to Leeward Digital LLC (Henderson, Nev.).

"System and methods for a symmetric encryption cipher with steganographically embedded access controls" was invented by Michael Feinberg (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method for a symmetric encryption cipher with steganographically embedded access controls includes generating a data structure relating to a cryptographic key of an invariant size and a variable encryption strength. The data structure is configured to dynamically allocate a plurality of adjacent data stores containing: an initialization vector (IV) for der...