US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for group messaging using blockchain-based secure key exchange" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,565, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for group messaging using blockchain-based secure key exchange" was invented by Muhammad Salman Nomani (Hillsborough, N.J.) and John M. Stokes (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein provide for the secure maintaining and providing of information, such as public keys used in Public Key Infrastructure ("PKI") techniques or other techniques, using a secure distributed ledger (e.g., "blockchain") system. A first entity may generate an asymmetric key pair that includes a public key a...