US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on March 31 for "Systems and methods of protecting secrets in use with containerized applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,655, issued on March 31, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods of protecting secrets in use with containerized applications" was invented by Michael Joseph Quinlan (San Francisco), Ajit Gaddam (San Francisco) and Rashmi Krishnan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data encryption keys (and other sensitive data) can be secured during use by a key protection service that performs cryptographic operations on behalf of a client application. The key protection service can be implemented as a lightweight virtual machine that appears externally as a container and that can be ...