ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,661, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Securely sharing data and access permissions in a cloud environment" was invented by Zhan Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: transmitting, by a user device, a public key of a client device to a key management server (KMS); generating, by the KMS, a digital certificate using the public key of the client device; storing the digital certificate in a storage device of a cloud service; generating, by the client device, a signed command to access the storage devi...