ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,263, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MailSPEC LLC (Las Vegas).

"Method for secure access to digital data" was invented by Jon Doyle (Nice, France) and Freddy Frouin (Parthenay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for secure access to digital data, said digital data being encrypted with a given user's public encryption key and stored on a server. The method comprises the following steps: A. receiving at said server a request from said user to access said digital data; B. transmitting, via said server, via a secure communication interface, a request to a secure user device to release a password st...