ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,808, issued on April 15, was assigned to SENTRIQS INC. (Reno, Nev.).

"Securing group updates over hypertext transfer protocol" was invented by Paul Dillon (Erie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for managing group membership. To remove a user from a group, a group management system ensures that the device associated with the user is no longer able to decrypt messages that are sent by other devices in the group, in spite of having a copy of the binary tree associated with the group. Accordingly, the group management system may update private and public keys that the device may access while ens...