US Patent Issued to Cummins on Aug. 25 for "Enhanced cryptography systems and methods" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,656, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Enhanced cryptography systems and methods" was invented by Christopher S. York (Greenwood, Ind.), Daniel Thomas Hackett (Columbus, Ind.), Gregory Khari Hinkson (Columbus, Ind.), Randall L. Wolf (Indianapolis) and Sharika K. Kumar (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for extending white-box cryptography are provided. A computing device can maintain, in a memory, one or more cryptography keys encrypted using a white-box cryptography solution. The one or more cryptography keys encrypt or decrypt data with a cryptography algorithm not su...