ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,185, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SHENZHEN YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Secure communications method and apparatus" was invented by Yong Li (Darmstadt, Germany), Feng Geng (Suzhou, China), Li Duan (Darmstadt, Germany), Pingping Yi (Beijing) and Min Li (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure communications method includes: receiving, by a first network device, a second ephemeral public key of a second network device; determining, by the first network device, an ephemeral session key based on a first shared key, a first ephemeral secret key of the first network device, and the se...