ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,488, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Handling of database encryption key revocation" was invented by Beomsoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Sik Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Hoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeong Seog Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include storage of a plurality of encrypted data pages of a row store database table in a persistent storage system, determination of a first encryption key associated with one of the plurality of encrypted data pages based on a header of the one of the plurality of encrypted data pages, determination of whether t...