ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,870, issued on April 14, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Secure communication implementation method with software and hardware collaborative encryption and network device" was invented by Bin Wang (Hangzhou, China), Dinglei Wang (Hangzhou, China), Haibin Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Jiadong Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Yinghui Xie (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a secure communication implementation method with software and hardware collaborative encryption. The method includes: after receiving a first network packet, querying, by an extende...