ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,852, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System and method to improve encrypted transmissions between nodes" was invented by Jakob Buron (Soborg, Denmark), Anders Lynge Esbensen (Kobenhavn NV, Denmark) and Jonas Roum-Moller (Horsholm, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for improving encrypted transmissions between nodes in a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, two sets of nonce values are used to monitor communications between each pair of network devices, wherein one set of nonce values is used for packets transmitted from a first node to a second node, and the...