ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,973, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TripleKey LLC (Brentwood, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for secure encryption" was invented by Paul Jerome Mathews (Brentwood, Tenn.), Oleksandr Rozumii (Venda do Pinheiro, Portugal) and Goncalo Alexandre Pinto Tomas (Almada, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method includes receiving encrypted data at a volatile memory of a first device; in response to receiving the encrypted data at the volatile memory of the first device: retrieving an asymmetric cryptographic key at the volatile memory of the first device, and retrieving a symmetric cryptographic key from a non-v...