ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,676, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Optalysys Ltd. (Leeds, Great Britain).

"Methods and systems for the implementation of NTRU-like cryptosystem relying on optical fourier transforms" was invented by Florent Christian Lucien Marie Michel (Castleford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crypto-method of securely communicating a message; the method comprises the steps of selecting a ring R' of bi or multi variate multinomials; generating a private key which has a multinomial f; generating a public key which has a multinomial h; encrypting by representing said message as a multinomial m in R', selecting a random multinomi...