US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Internal key management for a storage subsystem encrypting data in the cloud" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,377, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Internal key management for a storage subsystem encrypting data in the cloud" was invented by Jacob Lee Sheppard (Corona De Tucson, Ariz.) and Samantha A. Utter (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sharing data encryption keys among a plurality of storage systems is disclosed. The method generates, by a first storage system, a data encryption key for encrypting data sent from the first storage system to cloud storage. The method stores the encrypted data in the cloud storage in the form of an encrypted data object. In ...