ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,910, issued on April 15, was assigned to SENTRIQS INC. (Reno, Nev.).

"Securing group messages over hypertext transfer protocol with key management and rotation for multi-party groups" was invented by Paul Dillon (Erie, Pa.), Kyle Bebee (Kalispell, Mont.), Damien Fortune (Savannah, Ga.) and Robert Wilson (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end-to-end mechanism is disclosed herein for transporting encrypted messages over hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) sent to a group of recipients. In particular, the disclosed mechanism receives a message (e.g., as an input from a user) and encrypts that message using an encryption mechan...