US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 16 for "Data encryption for multi-cloud security" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,761, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data encryption for multi-cloud security" was invented by Vishal Jaikishan Chandwani (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for data encryption and decryption requiring successive partial decryption using multiple keys. The method is designed to generate a public key used to encrypt plaintext into an encrypted message and to generate multiple private keys, each of which are different from one another and are transmitted to separate computing devices to be used for decryption. The encrypted message is sent to one c...