ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,378, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KEYCRYPT LABS PTY LTD (Doncaster, Australia).
"Secure cloud storage and retrieval of client-side encrypted files" was invented by Alan Miao Zhang (Doncaster, Australia), David Fernandez (Doncaster, Australia) and Nathan Linney-Barber (Doncaster, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for secure cloud storage of client-side encrypted data using a hierarchical encryption structure and a hierarchical storage structure to provide hierarchical key management and hierarchical data access."
The patent was filed on Oct. 14, 2021, under Application No. 18/248,809.
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