US Patent Issued to NextLabs on Aug. 25 for "Sharing encrypted documents within and outside an organization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,660, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NextLabs Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Sharing encrypted documents within and outside an organization" was invented by Keng Lim (Atherton, Calif.) and Poon Fung (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of creating and managing encryption keys that facilitates sharing of encrypted content. The system may include an information management system with a key management server and a computing device having an encryption service module. The encryption service module detects operations at the computing device and encrypts a document with an encryption key created using user i...