ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,541, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods for encryption validation" was invented by Liang Cheng (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Online platforms such as online marketplaces may collect sensitive data, such as personal identifiable information or financial information. A data owner (e.g., an operator of an online platform) may encrypt sensitive data prior to storing the data in a persistent data store. An encryption validation method may be performed check whether a data set is encrypted prior to storing the data in the persistent data store. For example, for a data set that incl...