ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,456, issued on Feb. 24.
"Techniques for storing key backups" was invented by Arash Afshar (Calgary, Canada), Yehuda Lindell (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Guy Pe'er (Talmey Yechiel, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. Techniques described herein may enable a user and a service provider to each obtain a portion of a secret key. For example, the user may generate a user portion of the secret key, encrypt the user portion of the secret key using a public encryption key, and transmit the encryption of the user portion of the secret key to the service provider. The service prov...