ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,141, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Tybalt LLC (Boulder, Colo.).
"Polynomial network coding" was invented by Steve Shattil (Cheyenne, Wyo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vector network coding, such as linear network coding, is used to compute a plurality of coded data parts from original data, wherein each coded data part is computed from a cryptographic hash function of a previous coded data part. A recipient of the coded data parts can compute the cryptographic hash functions of the coded data to reproduce a system of linear equations, which can be solved to recover the original data. A cryptographic key that employs a polynomi...