US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on June 23 for "Hybrid hierarchical encryption system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,755, issued on June 23, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Hybrid hierarchical encryption system" was invented by Antoine Loiseau (Grenoble, France), Doryan Lesaignoux (Grenoble, France) and Mikael Carmona (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid cryptographic scheme for a network of nodes, in particular an IoT network, composed of a first subset and a second subset of separate nodes, the computing resources of the nodes of the first subset being greater than the computing resources of the nodes of the second subset, the scheme comprising a first functional crypto...