US Patent Issued to Intertrust Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Secure processing systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,283, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Intertrust Technologies Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Secure processing systems and methods" was invented by Gilles Boccon-Gibod (San Francisco) and Gary F. Ellison (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to systems and methods for enabling the use of secret digital or electronic information without exposing the sensitive information to unsecured applications. In certain embodiments, the methods may include invoking, by a client application executing in an open processing domain, a secure abstraction layer configured to interface with secret data protected by a se...