ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,130, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Extraction of data in a mutually distrustful environment" was invented by Christian Rudolf Hoermann (Raleigh, N.C.), Dharma Ganesan (Columbia, Md.), Thomas William Keetch (Blackburn with Darwen, Great Britain) and David Meibusch (Brisbane City, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for transmitting data within a cloud environment are disclosed. Data is received by a transmission service, which transmits the data to a signature and encryption (SE) service, along with an encryption key. Signed and encrypted data, which is recei...