ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,731, issued on March 17, was assigned to CRYPTOGRAPHY RESEARCH INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Encryption of error correction data using symbol-level ciphers" was invented by Michael Alexander Hamburg ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and implementations include systems and techniques for encryption and decryption of error-corrected codewords for combined protection against corruption of data and adversarial attacks, including obtaining a block of data that has a first plurality of symbols, generating, based on the first plurality of symbols, a second plurality of symbols, wherein the second plurality o...