US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 8 for "Distribute encryption keys securely and efficiently" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,362, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Distribute encryption keys securely and efficiently" was invented by Rohit Jog (Mountain View, Calif.), Cristina Schmidt (Mountain View, Calif.) and Clifford Arthur Frey (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for distributing encryption keys includes receiving a table associated with a particular user, the table including a plurality of data blocks and splitting the table into a plurality of tablets including a corresponding portion of data blocks. The method also includes generating a resource key uniquely associated with the table a...