US Patent Issued to Apple on April 7 for "Systems and methods for handling encrypted data" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,068, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for handling encrypted data" was invented by Raphael Hudon-Voyer (Montreal), Sebastien Fontaine (Montreal), Frank Andries van den Berg (San Jose, Calif.), Pradeepa Krishnamoorthy (L'Ile-Perrot, Canada), Benoit L. Floc'h (Montreal), Varun A. Vora (Campbell, Calif.) and Vincent Pozzuoli (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, by a first computing system and from a second computing system, an encrypted first key encrypted with a first public-private key pair. The encrypted first key may include a hash of at least...