ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,917, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy-preserving authenticated key rotation" was invented by Margarita Vald (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Olla Nasirov (Givatayim, Israel) and Adi Akavia (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure provide a method for performing data verification. The method includes generating a MAC by applying a tagging algorithm indicated by a shared verification key to a data item; appending the MAC to the data item; generating an encrypted dataset comprising an encrypted data item and encrypted message authentication; generating a re-encry...