US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on March 3 for "Messaging layer security (MLS) protocol-based secure channels" (American, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,972, issued on March 3, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Messaging layer security (MLS) protocol-based secure channels" was invented by Richard Lee Barnes (Arlington, Va.), Karthikeyan Bhargavan (Paris) and Franziskus Kiefer (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein is a Message Layer Security (MLS)-based secure channel communication arrangement that involves a minimal set of changes to the MLS standard to reduce the redundant overhead in case of two-party (one-to-one or 1:1) communication. These techniques reduce the communication and computation complexity of both devices involved in establis...