ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,050, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to u-blox AG (Thalwil, Switzerland).

"Method for protecting payload data" was invented by Davide Lenzarini (Thalwil, Switzerland), Michele LaManna (Pisa, Italy), Carlo Vallati (Pisa, Italy), Riccardo Xefraj (Pisa, Italy) and Pericle Perazzo (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for protecting payload data transmitted via a one-to-many communication channel from a provider device to at least one receiver device a public key set (PK) supporting asymmetric bilinear pairings is generated. A number of receiver device keys (DKi) that are generated based on the public key set (PK) are d...