US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 3 for "Using timestamps to prevent data tampering" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,735, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using timestamps to prevent data tampering" was invented by Garret Buban (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Timestamps are used to prevent data tampering. A trusted data generator generates a concatenated data object including a data object and metadata, which includes a location indication, a timestamp, and, depending on the type of encryption, an integrity value. The trusted timestamp generator encrypts the concatenated data object, stores the encrypted concatenated data object (e.g., in untrusted storage) in accordance with a...