ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,813, issued on April 21, was assigned to EVERYSENSE JAPAN INC. (Tokyo).

"Information intermediary system and information intermediary method" was invented by Hiroshi Mano (San Jose, Calif.) and Tetsutaro Uehara (Kusatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information intermediary system, in which a providing-side terminal device, an intermediary device, and a receiving-side terminal device are assigned with first to third public keys and first to third secret keys, the providing-side terminal device generates first encrypted data by encrypting provided data with third public key, and also generates a first electronic signature ...