US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on July 28 for "Ciphertext header-based data security" (Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,595, issued on July 28, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Ciphertext header-based data security" was invented by Terri Bly (Kirkland, Wash.), Sanjay Garothaya (Ashburn, Va.) and Mohammad Muntasir Nur (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for landing encrypted data in a column, requesting access to decrypted data, and storing multiple data sets in a single column with different encryption schemes based on utilizing cryptographic key and algorithm identifiers in ciphertext headers. The methods comprise an application of a storage system receiving an access request to encrypt data to or ...