US Patent Issued to Red Hat on April 7 for "Managing data encryption during system upgrades" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,065, issued on April 7, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Managing data encryption during system upgrades" was invented by Yuval Kashtan (Westford, Mass.), David Elie-Dit-Cosaque (Austin, Texas) and James Ramsay (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be provided for managing data encryption during system updates. For example, the system can detect an upgrade to a component of a computing device that includes encrypted data. In response to detecting the upgrade and prior to a boot process the system can deactivate a link between a set of platform configuration register (PCR) values and a decryption key usable...