US Patent Issued to ICERTI on April 7 for "System and method for encrypting and decrypting data" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,164, issued on April 7, was assigned to ICERTI Co. LTD (Daejeon, South Korea).

"System and method for encrypting and decrypting data" was invented by Young Hu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Nam Kyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Man Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun Gi Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encrypting data, performed by a computer system includes: dividing transmission target data into an arbitrary number of blocks; selecting an encryption key generation target block to be used for extracting an encryption key from among the plurality of divided blocks; gener...