US Patent Issued to BASF on Feb. 17 for "Method for pseudo-random number generation for information encryption" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,384, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Method for pseudo-random number generation for information encryption" was invented by Lothar Seidemann (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Holger Petersen (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Rainer Friehmelt (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Oliver Pikhard (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Holger Kai Peter Jelich (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating at least one encryption key (130) for encrypting data (142), a method of 5 data transmission between at least two communication systems (136, 138), a method ...