ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,807, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ONLYOWNER TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Method and system for secure file sharing based on domestic cryptographic algorithm" was invented by Hong Chen (Hong Kong), Zhongkui Liu (Hong Kong) and Yabin Zhang (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for secure file sharing based on a domestic cryptographic algorithm including steps: registering, by a user, at a file sharing user terminal A and a file receiving user terminal B, and sending registration information of the user to a key management center; calculating, by the key management center, digest values of usernames a and b,...