US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Sept. 15 for "Method for encrypting plain text" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,097, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for encrypting plain text" was invented by Viktor Friesen (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Plain text that is part of the plain text message is encrypted using a reversible decomposition function, which allocates two plain text parts to each plain text to be encrypted. These plain text parts are then encrypted with at least one encryption function in two separate steps. Since the decomposition function is reversible, the inverse function can always be used to unambiguously derive the original plain text from the plain text...