US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for group messaging using blockchain-based secure key exchange with key escrow fallback" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,429, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for group messaging using blockchain-based secure key exchange with key escrow fallback" was invented by Muhammad Salman Nomani (Hillsborough, N.J.) and John M. Stokes (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may provide for secure group messaging between multiple participant devices, in which two or more of the participant devices support blockchain-based techniques for the secure sharing of keys used to secure the group messaging, and in which one or more of the participant devi...