ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,832, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Cloud comment storage using per-artifact key" was invented by Siddiq Ahmed Koona (Bangalore, India), Bharani Lingamaneni (Vijayawada, India) and Sahana Durgam Udaya (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Confidentiality and privacy of user comments are preserved by encryption of comments stored on the cloud. A migration engine and a crypto server including an encryption engine, are positioned behind a firewall from the cloud storage. In response to a comment migration instruction (e.g., *onboarding, *offboarding, or *key rotation), the migration engine per...