US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 4 for "Encryption and decryption of data in a cloud storage based on indications in metadata" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,603, issued on March 4, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Encryption and decryption of data in a cloud storage based on indications in metadata" was invented by Matthew G. Borlick (Tucson, Ariz.), Lokesh M. Gupta (Tucson, Ariz.) and Micah Robison (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method, a system, and a computer program product in which metadata associated with encrypted data is maintained in a cloud computing environment, where the metadata indicates whether reading of information in the encrypted data is restricted geographically. A controller provides a decryption cod...