US Patent Issued to WhatsApp on Dec. 16 for "Methods, mediums, and systems for verifying devices in an encrypted messaging system" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,934, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to WhatsApp LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methods, mediums, and systems for verifying devices in an encrypted messaging system" was invented by Abhinav Raj (San Mateo, Calif.), Maaz Ali (New York) and Evan Christopher DeVrieze (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes methods, mediums, and systems for verifying a device for use in a messaging system. Using the device verification procedures described, a messaging system can securely authorize new devices to send and receive encrypted messages on behalf of a user, preferably without the need to share a private encryption key b...