ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,274, issued on May 20, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Cryptography-as-a-service" was invented by Andrew Berger (Dayton, Ohio), Ashish Gupta (Richmond, Va.), Marek Bazler (Glen Allen, Va.), Bharath Bhushan Sreeravindra (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hao Cheng (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods, as described herein, may comprise and/or utilize data governance systems to enable end-to-end encrypted communications between an organization and third parties as well as between systems internal to the organization. The data governance systems may enforce compliance with an organization's data g...