US Patent Issued to Rhinogram on May 12 for "Secure communication tool for use alongside non-secure communications" (South Carolina, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,499, issued on May 12, was assigned to Rhinogram Inc. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Secure communication tool for use alongside non-secure communications" was invented by Bo Ferger (Lakesite, Tenn.) and Rob Whelan (Daniel Island, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of communicating through a less secure messaging system provides an option of masking messages sent from a second party to a first party so that they are unreadable when received by the first party. For some embodiments, it may be that they are visible, but unreadable, other embodiments, not visible. In either case, an authorization may be provided by the first party to m...