US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on May 5 for "Secure control of access to data in an encrypted file" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,757, issued on May 5, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Secure control of access to data in an encrypted file" was invented by Brian J. Noe (Indian Harbour Beach, Fla.), Francis B. Afinidad (Melbourne, Fla.), Hope Noe (Indian Harbour Beach, Fla.) and Steven D. Ratts (Indian Harbour Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security client of a mobile computing platform transmits a request for the secret key to a key server. The request includes environmental data characterizing a current state of the environment of the node and establishes a cryptographic heartbeat with the key server. The security...