ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,554, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for establishing a quantum resistant temporal encryption and data aging communications protocol" was invented by Adam K. King (Fort Mill, S.C.), James Siekman (Charlotte, N.C.), Sanjay Lohar (Mint Hill, N.C.), Matthew K. Bryant (Mt. Holly, N.C.), Catherine Cunningham (Charlotte, N.C.), Takiyah Watford (Fort Mill, S.C.), Elizabeth Swanzy-Parker (Charlotte, N.C.) and Peter Nein (Waxhaw, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory configured to store a post quantum cryptography (PQC) key and sensitive data to be transmitt...