US Patent Issued to Kyndryl on May 27 for "Enforcing multi-ownership of data on storage" (Irish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,748, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Enforcing multi-ownership of data on storage" was invented by Dwarkanath P. Rao (Dublin) and Utz Bacher (Dettenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for providing a secure data access service that encrypts data is disclosed. The method includes: wrapping a data encryption key by at least two customer root keys, wherein the at least two customer root keys are assigned to different user identifiers, and wherein the at least two customer root keys are stored in different hardware security modules, and wherein a wrapping structure for ...