ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,598, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Paubox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method for securely communicating email content between a sender and a recipient" was invented by Hoala Greevy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for end-to-end encryption of electronic mail includes: receiving an email encrypted according to a first encryption protocol and designating a recipient within an external domain; verifying encryption protocol supported by the recipient's mail client; in response to a recipient exclusion database identifying the recipient, encrypting the email to a less-robust encryption protocol supp...