ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,040, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Contextual key management for data encryption" was invented by Mark Ian Gargett (Brighton, Great Britain), Shashank Visweswara (Crawley, Great Britain), Wayne Helm Gibson (Crawley, Great Britain) and David Paul Webb (Seaford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement contextual key management for data encryption are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to identify a combination of context rules mapped to a key associated with encrypted data,...