ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,265, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Collibra Belgium BV (Brussels).

"Systems and methods for secure key management using distributed ledger technology" was invented by Satyender Goel (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for securely managing and administering an encryption/decryption key using distributed ledger technology (DLT). In some examples, a client may possess a data attribute (or a dataset of data attributes). The client may receive tokenization parameters to apply to the data attribute to encrypt the data attribute. After tokenizing the data attribute, the cli...