US Patent Issued to PANASONIC HOLDINGS, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology on May 12 for "Secure secret sharing storage system using cloud service" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,975, issued on May 12, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Tokyo).

"Secure secret sharing storage system using cloud service" was invented by Masakatsu Matsuo (Fukuoka, Japan), Katsunori Kogata (Saitama, Japan), Masahide Sasaki (Tokyo) and Mikio Fujiwara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secret sharing storage system includes at least one user terminal, n units (n: an integer of 2 or more) of storage devices, and a main controller that is communicably connected to a random number generator. The main controller acquires a random number genera...