US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 20 for "Encryption key rotation based on dataset size or time between key rotation intervals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,731, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Encryption key rotation based on dataset size or time between key rotation intervals" was invented by Madhu Agrahara Gopalakrishna (Fremont, Calif.), Mahadev Karadigudda (San Jose, Calif.) and Sankalp Suhas Taralekar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for rotating encryption keys in a sized-based process by defining a threshold value specifying a maximum amount of data to be encrypted by a single encryption key, determining whether or not data currently ingested by the data storage system exceeds the threshold value, and perfor...