US Patent Issued to Google on July 14 for "Encrypted search with a public key" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,769, issued on July 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Encrypted search with a public key" was invented by Kevin Yeo (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sarvar Patel (Montville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for searchable encryption with a public key includes receiving an operation request from a user device associated with a user requesting that encryption of data associated with the user. The data includes a corpus of documents stored on a remote storage device. The method also includes receiving a public key associated with the user. The public key includes an asymmetric cryptographic public key. The ...