ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,292, issued on March 17, was assigned to LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method and system for secure data transmission" was invented by Pei-Hsuan Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Wei-Chuang Huang (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for secure data transmission is provided. The method includes requesting a key from an encryption and decryption application in a near real-time radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (Near-RT RIC). The method includes receiving the key from the encryption and decryption application. The method includes encrypting data by using the key, and generating enc...