ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,131, issued on May 5, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"System and method for securely delivering keys and encrypting content in cloud computing environments" was invented by Rafie Shamsaasef (San Diego) and Lawrence Cook (Santee, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based system and method for encrypting media content is disclosed. The system comprises a key server microservice, for receiving control word requests and for generating encoded control words and a software encryption microservice, communicatively coupled to the key server microservices, the encryption microservice for receiving the media cont...