ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,988, issued on Aug. 4.

"Method for encrypting data streams" was invented by Richard D'souza (Langley, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for encrypting a data stream. The method comprises encoding the data stream into one or more torus knots and generating a public key and a private key. The public key is generated from the geometric properties associated with the one or more torus knots and the private key comprises a unique decoding threshold and a unique identifier associated with a specific user or a session. The method further comprises combining the public key and the private key to ...