US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Sept. 8 for "Secure node exchange attribute-based keys (SNEAK)" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,363, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Secure node exchange attribute-based keys (SNEAK)" was invented by Jeffrey J. Stapleton (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The arrangements disclosed herein relate to systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for Secure Node Exchange Attribute-based Keys (SNEAK) including secure exchange of sensitive message elements between sequential message nodes using attribute-based key management. Each message node can access none, one, some, or all encrypted message elements based on assigned attributes of that message node....