ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,664, issued on Jan. 27.
"Encryption methods" was invented by Francesco Lucente Stabile (Peabody, Mass.) and Carey Atkins (Hampstead, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of symmetric encryption and transferring encrypted data is provided that incorporate the Lucente Stabile Atkins Cryptosystem ("DIO-LSA"). This method uses certain properties of mathematical objects called "groups," where groups are sets of elements that are equipped with an operator and have the closure, associativity, identity, and invertibility properties. The DIO-LSA uses groups to encrypt and decrypt any kind of information between two or more parties."
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