ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,532, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).
"Data transmission" was invented by Catherine White (London) and Matthew Wallwork (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system transmit data from a source node to a destination node through multiple intermediate nodes. The data is split into shares using a secret sharing algorithm, each routed differently through the network, though all routes share at least one common first intermediate node. At least two of the routes are different from each other. Datagrams are constructed to convey each share along its route. Each datagram is encrypted ...