US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on April 7 for "Distributed encryption key allocation" (California, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,060, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed encryption key allocation" was invented by John Kennedy (Los Olivos, Calif.), Prasanna Kumar Malaiyandi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Karthik Raman (New York) and Jan Zila (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Customers of a software platform, such as a unified communications as a service platform, are enabled to control their own encryption keys used to encrypt and decrypt data from various communication services in the software platform. A key broker server is employed to map encryption and decryption requests from servers in the platform t...