US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 21 for "Multi-part transaction integrity protection and encryption" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,520, issued on July 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multi-part transaction integrity protection and encryption" was invented by Charles R. Johns (Austin, Texas), Guerney D.H. Hunt (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Florian Auernhammer (Adliswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-part transaction integrity protection and encryption is disclosed, including generating, by a first device, a first message authentication code (MAC) for authenticating a plurality of packets of a transaction, the plurality of packets including at least a first packet received from a second device over a dat...