US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Feb. 4 for "Systems and methods for post-quantum cryptography on a smartcard" (North Carolina, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,058, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for post-quantum cryptography on a smartcard" was invented by Abhijit Rao (Irvine, Calif.), Adam Sanders (Huntersville, N.C.), Ramanathan Ramanathan (Bellevue, Wash.), Ramesh Yarlagadda (Charlotte, N.C.), Pierre Arbajian (Matthews, N.C.) and Andrew J. Garner (State Road, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). An example system includes a PQC smartcard. The smartcard may include a PQC cryptographic algorithm selection circuitry con...