US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Aug. 25 for "Rekeying using indirection layer for dynamic key ID lookup" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,945, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Rekeying using indirection layer for dynamic key ID lookup" was invented by Yi Fang (Kirkland, Wash.), Chong Han (Bellevue, Wash.), Haoyu Li (Fremont, Calif.), Xinglian Liu (Redmond, Wash.), Nithin Mahesh (Kirkland, Wash.), Benedikt Schmidt (San Bruno, Calif.), Ankur Sharma (Berlin), Lars Volker (Los Altos, Calif.) and Yizhi Zhu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology stores an original file master key identifier (FMKID) in metadata associated with an encrypted file, the encrypted file including data. The subject technology determ...