ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,979, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LOCKIN COMPANY Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Security method of input data using random number data for security keypad" was invented by Myoung Kyu Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Myung Hoon Pyo (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of securing input data using random number data for a security keypad according to the present invention includes (a) a step of generating randomly server random number data by a main server, (b) a step of generating, by a client, client random number data corresponding to each input character input through a security keypad from ...