ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,130, issued on May 19, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Certificate-based encryption implemented with multiple encryption schemes" was invented by Karim Eldefrawy (Santa Monica, Calif.), Nicholas Genise (Austin, Texas) and Rutuja Kshirsagar (Blacksburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encryption module and the decryption module cooperate with an identity-based key generator of users in a communication system in order to use an identity-based and certificate-based construction using two or more encryption schemes. An encrypted message is communicated between users of the communication system such that the ...