ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,241, issued on June 17, was assigned to Safe Harbor Digital Asset Security LLC (Grasonville, Md.).

"Cryptographic communication binding system and method" was invented by C. Jay Wack (Clarksville, Md.) and Roger Butler (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cryptographically binding communication parties includes assigning attributes to parties, and performing a combine operation including creating communication keys. Data is encrypted using a session key. A recombine operation includes receiving output parameters, along with the session key if the parameters are validated. A cryptographic communication binder i...