US Patent Issued to PQShield on Oct. 14 for "Methods and systems for compressed encryption" (British, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,416, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to PQShield Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Methods and systems for compressed encryption" was invented by Thomas Prest (Oxford, Great Britain), Shuichi Katsumata (Tokyo) and Kris Kwiatkowski (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are method and systems for transmitting a plurality of ciphertexts to a plurality of users. The systems and methods described herein provide for performing an encryption update comprising a plurality of encryption keys and a multi-ciphertext to a plurality of recipient nodes. Methods and systems for organizing a database are also disclosed ...