ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,147, issued on June 16, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Data owner device and its data management method for user-centric data management through authentication and key agreement based on single aggregate key" was invented by Kisung Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a data management method of user-centric data management through authentication and key agreement based on a single aggregate key. The method includes adding a keyword to data and encrypting the data according to a predetermined encryption technique; storing the encrypted da...