US Patent Issued to SafeMoon US on March 25 for "System and method of creating symmetric keys using elliptic curve cryptography" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,946, issued on March 25, was assigned to SafeMoon US LLC (Pleasant Grove, Utah).

"System and method of creating symmetric keys using elliptic curve cryptography" was invented by Lynn Spraggs (Vernon, Canada) and Robert Spraggs (Coldstream, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating a symmetric key to allow the sharing of information between two entities, wherein the symmetric key is established from the private key of a first client and the public key of a second client and for use in a symmetric encryption methodology to encrypt information for transport to the second entity, allowing the second entity to form th...