ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,441, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Integration of third-party encryption key managers with cloud services" was invented by Il-Sung Lee (New York), Sidharth Durgesh Telang (New York), Jimmy C. Chau (New York), Timothy Matthew Dierks (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ariel Joseph Feldman (Forest Hills, N.Y.), Hunter James Freyer (Long Island City, N.Y.), Gregory David Laun (Jersey City, N.J.), Tianyuan Liu (Manhasset, N.Y.), Pedro Henrique Ribeiro Morais E Silva (New York), Aditya Sinha (New York), Xiaolan Zhang (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Netanel Keidar (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for...