US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Group encryption using unbalanced binary tree architecture" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,348, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Group encryption using unbalanced binary tree architecture" was invented by Jason Gluckman (Encinitas, Calif.), John Strandberg (Phoenix) and Zakiuddin Mohammed Zaheer (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system configured to improve encryption architecture for camera video data. By using an unbalanced binary tree architecture, the system enables group encryption that prioritizes a constrained device (e.g., embedded camera device), thereby reducing an amount of processing required for the constrained device to encrypt video data. For example, pla...