US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Dec. 30 for "Methods and mechanisms for secure data sharing" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,407, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and mechanisms for secure data sharing" was invented by Fei Li (Houston), Jimmy Iskandar (Fremont, Calif.) and Michael D. Armacost (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device manufacturing system configured to receive, by a first computing system, a request for manufacturing process data request. The system further uses a first cryptographic key controlled by a first entity and a second cryptographic key controlled by a second entity, a database management system to retrieve the manufacturing process data from a da...