US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 5 for "Secure content distribution and decryption" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,744, issued on May 5, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Secure content distribution and decryption" was invented by Maxim Paklin (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Beiter (Athol, Idaho) and Bojan Vukojevic (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, an encrypted file such as one representing an encrypted game build may be distributed with an encrypted content-encryption key that was used to encrypt the file and/or an identifier associated with a key-encryption key that was used to encrypt the content-encryption key. An authorized recipient may extract the encrypted content-encryption key and the ...