ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,942, issued on June 24, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Artificial reality encryption and decryption" was invented by Huihui Wu (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for encryption and decryption of data. In some implementations, an encryption and decryption system can protect private information of a user in documents with an artificial reality device. The encryption and decryption system can determine the portion of a document containing private information and encrypt that portion of the document. In some implementati...