ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,521, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Safe and secure communication" was invented by Donjete Elshani Rama (Unterhaching, Germany), Alexander Zeh (Munich) and Jorg Syassen (Feldkirchen-Westerham, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may compute redundancy information based on plaintext. The device may determine modified additional data based on the redundancy information and the additional data. The device may encrypt the plaintext to obtain ciphertext. The device may compute a message authentication code based on the ciphertext and the modified additional data. The device m...