ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,901, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"External key manager error handling for encrypted platform-hosted data" was invented by Rohit Vijay Jog (Milpitas, Calif.) and Cristina Schmidt (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a system for responding to transient errors temporarily preventing a computing platform hosting data from communicating with an external key manager hosting keys used to encrypt the platform data. The encryption key can be controlled external to the system in an external key manager (EKM). If an error occurs in which the system ...