US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 13 for "Passive distribution of encryption keys for distributed data stores" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,153, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Passive distribution of encryption keys for distributed data stores" was invented by Yan Valerie Leshinsky (Kirkland, Wash.), Lon Lundgren (Kirkland, Wash.) and Stefano Stefani (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed data store may implement passive distribution encryption keys to enable access to encrypted data stored in the distributed data store. Keys to encrypt a data volume stored in the distributed data store may be encrypted according to a distribution key and provided to a client of the distributed data store. Storage nodes that ...