ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,765, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Secureant Inc. (Fairfax Station, Va.).

"Method for payload encryption of digital voice or data communications" was invented by Christopher Vincent Feudo (Fairfax Station, Va.), Thomas J Zacharkevics (Fairfax Station, Va.) and S Bruce Morton (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process using software based code segment which communicates over a transport medium, such as a network, for transmitting near real-time or real-time end-to-end encrypted voice or data or video conferencing communications between at least a first device and a second device is disclosed. The devices communicate ...