US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 23 for "Key management cache synchronization" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,211, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Key management cache synchronization" was invented by Ryan K. Cradick (Oronoco, Minn.), John A. Riendeau (Madison, Wis.) and Paul Gerver (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encryption key management for containerized applications is provided. An application container receives a request, directed to a wrapped data encryption key (WDEK), and it is determined whether a local cache associated with the application container stores a mapping of the WDEK to an unwrapped data encryption key (DEK). In response to a cache miss, a share...