ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,907, issued on July 15, was assigned to Fortanix Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Format-preserving data encryption" was invented by Xinyu Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Jethro Gideon Beekman (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Jeffrey Seyfried (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving input data that includes a plurality of input parts, wherein the input data corresponds to a data schema, wherein the data schema includes a plurality of schema parts, wherein each schema part specifies a set of one or more possible values, and wherein each input part satisfies a respective schema part. The method further includes gen...