ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,530, issued on June 17.

"Cross domain key management" was invented by Yolanda Liu (Boston), Leonardo D. M. Machado (London), Pavel Zakharov (Montreal), Roman Popenov (Salem, N.H.), Larry Liu (Kendall Park, N.J.) and Brian Ko (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A datacenter may include one or more servers and an offline key storage system. The datacenter may receive, via a server and from a multi-party computation (MPC) coordinator, a first request to access a key share associated with an MPC node. The server may transmit a second request for the key share as...