ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,611, issued on Oct. 27.

"Secure message delivery for remote transactions" was invented by John W. Day (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for delivering messages between multiple devices of a communications network with a certainty of success using nodes of real-time computer systems, for example. The messages can include instructions related to transactions such as reading and/or writing data to a database, and a clock value of one or more of the devices can be used to authorize parties to the transaction, to encrypt and/or decrypt messages, to guarantee w...