Superpowered Assigned Patent

Superpowered Inc., Austin, TX, has been assigned a patent (11531767) developed by Szanto; Gabor, Kapolnasnyek, Hungary, and Vlaskovits; Alexander Patrick, Austin, TX, for a “strategic digital media encryption.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A media storage and playback apparatus encrypts header fields and side-information fields within respective packets of a compressed, packetized media file to obfuscate unencrypted payload fields within the packets. After encrypting the header fields and side-information fields, the media storage and playback apparatus stores the encrypted header fields and side-information fields together with the unencrypted payload fields within a nonvolatile storage for later retrieval, decryption and playback.”

The patent application was filed on 2018-09-24 (16/140264).