US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 2 for "Secure file sharing and deletion" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,753, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Secure file sharing and deletion" was invented by Alexander Perepechko (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a file sharer may receive, from a first user device, a file and an indication of a set of additional users and may perform encryption on the file to generate an encrypted file. The file sharer may transmit the encrypted file to a cloud storage. The file sharer may receive, from a second user device, a request for the file and may contact a single sign on service to authenticate a user of the second user device. T...