US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on Aug. 11 for "Encryption key management across multiple computing devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,735, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Encryption key management across multiple computing devices" was invented by Ronald Ray Trimble (Wilmington, Mass.) and Dylan Alden Parker Davis (Norfolk, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a first computing device of a plurality of computing devices may send, to a key management (KM) device, a request for information related to at least one of an active key encryption key (KEK) or a pre-active KEK associated with an entity. The first computing device may receive, from the KM device, an indication that the KM device does not have a...