US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 9 for "Contextual encryption and access control of data" (Indian, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,702, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Contextual encryption and access control of data" was invented by Parminder Singh Sethi (Punjab, India), Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India), Srinath Kappgal (Cork, Ireland) and Atishay Jain (Meerut, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enhancing data security includes receiving data. The method includes obtaining a plurality of contextual factors associated with the data. The further method includes determining an encryption level based on at least one of the contextual factors. The method further includes determining a type of encryption based o...