US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Encrypted end-to-end messaging using near-field communication (NFC) tags" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,838, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Encrypted end-to-end messaging using near-field communication (NFC) tags" was invented by Simon Carter (Southampton, Great Britain), Mark Argent (Watford, Great Britain) and Sarah Neenan (Eastleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes using a first symmetric key to encrypt a first private key of a first asymmetric key pair, and storing the encrypted first private key on a predetermined near-field communication (NFC) tag. The method further includes storing a fir...