US Patent Issued to George Mason University on Aug. 4 for "Covert and resilient communication over non-cooperative networks" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,140, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to George Mason University (Fairfax, Va.).

"Covert and resilient communication over non-cooperative networks" was invented by Kai Zeng (Fairfax, Va.) and Massieh Kordi Boroujeny (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus provides network communication between a sender and a receiver in a communication network. At a sender side of the network communication a ciphertext is encoded into a stegotext in a target language using a randomized language model, the ciphertext based upon an original content in a source language. The stegotext randomly generated by the language m...