US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on June 16 for "Object-level encryption" (Virginia, Maryland, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,136, issued on June 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Object-level encryption" was invented by Rocky Gray (Fairfax, Va.), Jeremy Green (Alexandria, Va.), Justin Bachorik (Silver Spring, Md.) and Irakli Nadareishvili (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, system, or computer-readable medium for performing object-level encryption and key rotations is disclosed. A service platform may store data items organized into one or more asset clusters. A first content encryption key may be set as the active encryption key for an asset cluster. The active encryption key may be encrypted us...