US Patent Issued to Intertrust Technologies on May 20 for "Digital rights management systems and methods using efficient messaging architectures" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,911, issued on May 20, was assigned to Intertrust Technologies Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Digital rights management systems and methods using efficient messaging architectures" was invented by Vanishree Rao (San Mateo, Calif.), Robert Tarjan (Princeton, N.J.) and Jarl Nilsson (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing protected electronic content that employ relatively efficient messaging schemes. Rights management architectures are described that may, among other things, provide end-to-end protection of content keys from their point of origination at a content cr...